
Tetyana Khytko
Sydney Australia
I express my thoughts and feelings through allegories. Roads, bikes, sails, birds and other objects in my paintings 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. I like discovering new objects with “meaning” to use in my works, like a poet uses allegories.
Born in Kiev, Ukraine, I became infected with the drawing virus at a very early age when I discovered on my parents’ bookshelf a book of caricatures by Herluf Bidstrup, famous Danish artist/caricaturist. So my early experimentation with art was in drawing caricatures of my classmates, teachers and other locals. I studied painting at the Kiev Art School. In 1987 I graduated from the Kiev State Institute of Arts with a degree in architecture, worked as an architect after graduation and later changed my career into graphic design.
I return to my passion, painting, many years later, when in 2000 I immigrated with my family to New Zealand. I began experimenting with different mediums and techniques to move away from the representational approach, participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions run in Wellington - WAG (Wellington Artist Group), Watercolour NZ, Academy of Fine Arts, South Coast Gallery and Portraiture Award exhibitions. The NZ Art Show (Wellington) is my favorite event. I have participated in the show as a Single Artist Wall exhibitor every year since it started in 2004.
Most of my works are based on first impression sketches and caricatures. I let them travel straight from my sketchbook onto a canvas with very little changes and corrections. In regards to colour - I should confess to a great love of green in all its shades. However there was a certain shift in my colour palette after moving to Australia in 2010.
My works can also be viewed on the Bluethumb, Australian online gallery www.bluethumb.com.au and on my website www.tetyanasarts.com
I hope you enjoy visiting my site, feel free to send me a message with any query you may have.
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Story of Icarus
$2900
Description
This is my another painting of Icarus. This time I depicted him much younger. The boy who flew too close to the sun. But idea of my both works is the same. I agree with poet Jack Gilbert who said: “I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.” In this painting I used gauze (cheesecloth) on stretched canvas for textural effects. My first version of Icarus can be views on the link below: https://bluethumb.com.au/tetyana-khytko/Artwork/icarus-tetyana-khytko
Framed no
Dimensions 920 x 920 x 35
Medium oil
Style portrait, modern
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Made Up Stories
$2900
Description
What would happen if the characters of your different paintings meet each other on one canvas? Can you achieve harmony in colour, style and mood? Can you create a new exciting work with a collage of these characters? How will they interact with each other? So I decided to try it on my experimental piece "Made Up Stories". Why "Made Up Stories"? Once I was asked at an art show if images in my paintings are real people I know. I said "No, we never met". So...I finally met with my characters on this canvas. Ha ha! Funny. Looks crazy :) Oil on stretched canvas.
Framed no
Dimensions 710 x 710 x 35
Medium oil
Style portrait, modern