SUNSEED-ART

Grasya Oliyko

Since the beginning of the war I was sure my work wouldn’t be in demand in Ukraine. How can we talk about books when the cities and towns are occupied and Russian rockets are flying? And I couldn’t draw on the theme of war: how to draw grief, pain, despair and what for? But then I tried and I realized and I felt a bit better, because I shared my pain through the drawing. And then many foreigners began to comment and be compassionate to Ukrainians and wish the Victory to Ukraine. I want the world to know what real Russia is, because only Ukrainians can tell you that. We have to win together to live in safety

Grasya Oliyko studied Fine Arts and Book Graphics at the Institute of Publishing and Printing at NTUU KPI in Kyiv, Ukraine. She illustrates books for children and works with the biggest Ukrainian Publishing Houses. Also Grasya Oliyko is an author of picture book “The story, told by Zhuka” (The Old Lion Publishing House) about two stray dogs and an illustrator of the book “The dress for Marusia”, it is about the stray dog too.

Grasya draws her illustration art mostly in Procreate on ipad, but also likes appliqué, black ink or different mixed media.