We have not
forgotten the Ukraine in
our thoughts and prayers, in the midst of another war, in the Holy Land. So many people right now are asking for prayers. We are all effected by what is happening, and the suffering of others weighs on our hearts.
Here is a Ukrainian artist who
brings joy to my heart in her colorful work.
VERA IVANOVNA BARINOVA-KULEBAwas born in 1938 in the small village of Rymarivkа
in the Poltava
region of the Ukraine. She Graduated from Kyiv state art institute in 1965. Studied in the
creative workshops of the Academy of arts of the USSR.
A graduate
of Kiev Art Institute, Vera started in Social Realism, before becoming one of
the leading artists in post-Soviet Ukraine; her works represent a
fusion of the modern and the timeless in Ukrainian folk life.
Since 1994,
she has been a professor at the National Academy of Art and Architecture. Her
works hang in the NationalArt Museum and have been exhibited in Switzerland, France,
USA, Russia, Germany,
and Britain. Several
of her paintings were offered for sale at Christie's, London in 1990.
