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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Natasha, post: 218140, member: 3724&quot;]Thanks to all of you for your interest. Kateryna Bilokur is famous in Ukraine but not known outside. I was lucky to have visited her home place in the village, 150 km from Kyiv. I cannot give you a lot of information, not enough space for it. Just a few words. She became an outstanding artist despite the hard life in a poor village family. She did not have any special education, actually, no education at all, just a few years at elementary school to be able to read and write. Her parents did not let her to learn drawing as she was supposed to work hard to take care of the house, husbandary and her brothers. Only after her tears, sufferings, and attempt to commit suiside her father let her draw in her free time (which was once a week Sunday afternoon). Her only teacher was nature. The main subject of her paintings was flowers. She made brushes of cats&#039; fur, and mainly used natural paints, as she did not have money to buy professional paints. In the end of her life she wrote a book &quot;I SHALL BE AN ARTIST&quot; which became a &quot;bestseller&quot;.</p><p>A lot of her pre-war artworks were burned. Only a few survived, including the one I loaded here (1935). At present her artworks are very expensive, they are sold at the European auctions. The Museum of Decorative Art in Kyiv has the best collection of her works. They sell the prints of her works and books about her (the books are in Ukrainian but with English summary). Last year I sent 10 prints and a few books about her to Seattle. The prints are not on paper but on special decorative canvas. If you want to buy her prints, I will check with my friend at the museum what is available and prices. [ATTACH=full]64503[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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