Helen Illichova, 1958 | Abstract Figurative painter

Елена Ильичева is an Ukrainian painter, une of the most exclusive artists in the Eastern Europe.

Helen Illichova is the only painter in the world who uses rather unusual authoring techniques for writing paintings.

The artist paints the picture with his hand with the cotton sock on it.
With this special technique, Elena achieves a vivid expressiveness of the images, in which her characteristic acute sense of the beauty of the surrounding world is reflected.

Elena is rightfully called a master of still life and a woman's image.

Her still lifes admire the virtuoso composition, juiciness and subtlety of the color palette. In them, subjects are written out carefully, but they seem slightly blurred, which brings some mystery and light magic to the canvases.

• 1975-79 Studies at the Odessa State Higher Art School.
• 1980-86 Studies at the Odessa State Pedagogical Institute.
• 1981-85 Work at the Odessa State Higher Art School as a professor of painting and drawing.
• From 1985 Participation in Regional and Republican exhibitions of the Union of Painters.
• 1994 The first personal exhibition in the gallery “In Uyutnaya street”.
• 1995 The second personal exhibition in “The Marine Gallery”.
• 1997 The third personal exhibition in the Odessa Literary Museum.
• 1997 The “Warm Autumn Days by the Sea” exhibition in the Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental Art.
• 1998 An International Art Festival in Kiev`98.
• 1998 The fourth personal exhibition in the Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental Art.
• 1998 Participation in the exhibition OdessaArt`98.
• 1998 The “Christmas season” exhibition in the Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental Art.
• 1999 The opening of the Art Gallery “Amis”.
• 1999 An International Art Festival in Kiev`99.
• 2000 An International Art Festival in Kiev`2000.
• 2006 - 2007: Princesse de Kiev - Nice (France)