Recently, I came across a Ukrainian artist who is a master of painting on glass. Born in Lviv in 1963 OKSANA ROMANIV-TRISKAgraduated from Lviv College of Applied Arts IN 1982. From 1984 till 1989 she studied at Vilnius Academy of Arts in the studio of Professor A. Stoshkus. Her personal exhibitions were held at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich (1993), the Museum of Ethnography in Lviv (1994), as well as in Berchtesgaden, Bad Tölz, Bad Vizzey, Freilassing, Munich (all - in Germany), Kufstein ( Austria).
Painting on glass by Oksana represents an interesting approach to this ancient method – “behind the other side of glass”- inspired by the examples of Ukrainian icon-painting of the 14th-18th centuries. She continues and develops this special art in a very individual way, exploring the folk icon on the glass of the second half of the 18th-19th centuries.Traditional Ukrainian style of painting on glass in reverse where paints are on the opposite side of the glass.
Interesting to note her style is not set, as seen in the three Madonnas and Child, yet her use of color is always bold and striking, drawing us in, as if to let us know there is more than meets the eye.