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Nadiia Padurska’s Exhibition

The exhibition of Nadiia Padurska "In my canvases I am free, like God ...” opens on 27 April 2015 in Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum.

The co-organizer of the exhibition is the Art Department of Kirovohrad Regional Universal Scientific Library named after D. Chyzhevskyi.

Nadiia Ivanivna Padurska was born on 26 April 1943 in the village Pomichna of Dobrovelychkivka Raion, Kirovohrad region.

Nadiia was born a healthy, quick and cheerful girl. She was the youngest child in the family. As her mother tells, little Nadia loved to climb a tree and sing songs there. Once a tragedy occurred: a 5-year-old girl fell from a tree and severely damaged her spine. She remained alive, but from that time some of her physical abilities were limited. But she still went to school, studied well, but drawing was something she could do the best. Having graduated from high school, a gifted girl was hired as a graphic designer in the theater “Myr" in Pomichna. There she painted playbills, announcements, stands, etc.

She studied at Moscow University correspondence folk art. correspondence courses Moscow People's Correspondence University of Arts. In the 1980s, she met Volodymyr Plitin, a Kirovohrad artist. He gave her a lot of professional advice and convinced to use oil paints more. He made her believe that she could be a real artist.

The first picture by Nadiia was about mother: old mother sits on a background of red sky and holds a newspaper with gnarled strained fingers, radiating peace and faith...

Bright creative vision of the world and also a great love for people awoke in Nadiia Padurska a desire to take up the brush.

Creativite work of Nadiia is inked to the creative work of Kateryna Bilokur, a famous Ukrainian artist, master of folk decorative painting, and representative of "naive art". Nadiia even painted the artist’s portrait. When she chanced to have Kateryna Bilokur’s album of works, the artist felt a real festival of flowers, nasturtium, camomiles and dahlias, hollyhocks and marigolds, asters and calendula, entwined with grape and morning glory smiled from each page, as if they grew up in the book alive. Since that Nadiia began to look closely to each stem, to each flower, and wanted to draw even more. This event became a great push to art. In 1993 Nadiia Padurska’s exhibition opened in Yahotyn State Historical Museum .

The “phenomenon of provincial artist" began to be much spoken and written on. In 2002 she was awarded with commendation by Kyiv Pedagogical College. There is a real art gallery in this college, initiated with Nadiia’s work.

Fate made her acquainted with many wonderful people who feel someone else's pain as their own, among them - Volodymyr Plitin, Ella Yanchukova. Thanks to this relations Nadiia began to create again.

Nadiia took part in the republican vernissage held in 1987 in Kyiv within the framework of the 2nd All-Union festival of amateur and folk arts, and was awarded the prize of the festival. She was also awarded with diplomas, commendations, diplomas, among them "Winner of the All-Union Festival of Folk Art Medal" granted in Moscow in 1987, which is kept in stock collection of Dobrovelychkivka District Museum.

The first solo exhibition of Nadiia Padurska was opened in Kirovohrad art salon in 1989 and aroused great interest of art lovers and professionals. For the artist’s works are very interesting and original, different in their peculiar way of perception of the reality. She lives, suffers, believes and dreams on her canvases. Her paintings radiate the love to blossoming Ukrainian nature, vitality, conviviality and optimism. Like bright children’s smiles, clear lights of orange petals glow in haze, and amid them there is a flock of birds. These pictures are "Memories of Childhood", "My Native Village", "Fairy Bird" (1994), "Everything Lives, Everything Sings" (2015).

Fine art of the painter is original and folk, full of philosophical meaning, strength of spirit, courage, and, what is the most important, with a thirst for life. People say about her work that they are unusual for the technique of painting and for the boundless sincerity with which she shares her world view. Nature in Padurska’s artworks is reflected in an original interpretation as if the surroundings, the past, nature, life speaks to us through her pictures...

More than 49 paintings by the artist, many drawings are kept in Dobrovelychkivka District Museum. There is also a film by Kirovohrad journalist Liudmyla Nikolaievska "Temple of Good by Nadiia Padurska" (1991). Also two solo exhibitions were opened in the museum: "My Art for you, Ukraine!" (2004), "Keep the Spark of God" (2005).

Nadiia poetizes her characters, whether it is the child that made the first step, or an elderly person, to whom befell the disaster of war. She repeatedly expressed her love for Ukraine, wishing prosperity and abundance. The artist believes that if something “touched” a man, it means she managed to catch that moment and that loftiness that everybody has inside.

Generously talented Nadiia has a good voice, being in love with folk song from her childhood. She feels the music of words, the images of her rich inner world are also manifested in a poetic form. Her poetry became a part of the collected volume of poems and songs “Dawn of Motherhood" (2005) by poets and composers of Kirovohrad region.

The exhibition of Nadiia Padurska "In my canvases I am free, like God ..." is the first solo exhibition of the artist in Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum. The exhibition presents her paintings and graphic works from private collections of Vita Atamanchuk, Nataliia Ahapieieva, Ella Yanchukova, Alisa Abharian, Yurii Liubovych and others.

Nadiia Padurska’s works are kept not only in stock collection of Ukrainian museums, but also in private collections including the USA, Japan, Germany.

Now Nadiia lives in a boarding house for veterans of war and labor with geriatric department in the village Vlasivka of Svitlovodsk Raion. Despite all the obstacles, she stubbornly marches through life and rejoice in each of its moments. She considers the main thing in her life to be art, fully giving it her soul.

Tetiana Kostenko - research assistant

of Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum’s department –

Petro Ossovskyi Picture Gallery “World & Homeland”