Tetyana Khytko

Biography

Tetyana Khytko is a Ukranian-born, Sydney based painter who expresses her thoughts and feelings through allegories. In her paintings, roads, bikes, sails, birds and other objects all have symbolic meaning. A road can represent life journey. Wind is associated with anxiety and awaiting changes. A broken umbrella is telling a story of broken heart. Sailing is following or fighting for your dream. Objects with “meaning” are used in her works, like a poet using allegories.

​​Born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine, Tetyana studied painting at the Kiev Art School and in 1987 graduated from the Kiev State Institute of Arts with a degree in architecture. Her works experiment with different mediums and techniques such as gouache, oil, collage in combination with watercolour and acrylic, to move away from the representational approach. Tetyana’s work is especially influenced by Post-Impressionist painters such as Cézanne and van Gogh. Landscape, a mixture of reality and fantasy,are amongst her favourite subjects, as well as abstract figurative. Most of her works are based on first impression sketches and caricatures, which travel straight from her sketchbook onto a canvas with very little changes and corrections. In regards to colour, Tetyana has a great love of green in all its shades.

Tetyana has had her work exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Wellington - WAG (Wellington Artist Group), Watercolour NZ, Academy of Fine Arts, South Coast Gallery and the New Zealand Art Show, Camberwell Art Show (Melbourne), Hunters Hill Art Exhibition (Sydney). She was also a finalist at the 2017 International Artist Grand Prize Competition (Taipei).

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