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ABOUT OLIVE HNATIUK...HER BIOGRAPHY...

Olive Hnatiuk – Photographer and Artist

Becoming an “Artist” is a long process. I started with a pencil as a small child.

At school there were crayons and a blank sheet of paper to create one's own

stick people and box houses with little round trees. Later came dimension,

perspective, more and better pencils, watercolour and paints and a variety of

different paper and canvas. After high school came art school and the

realization that I would be one of those starving artists. With a change of

direction, I earned a reasonably good living that allowed me to do the creative

art work that I enjoyed in my leisure time.

I added a camera to keep that vast number of inspirational images recorded

for later use in paintings. And, furthermore, I became a fairly good

photographer to boot.

The photograph suggested that nature is not static and painting should not

be either. Nature and people come in varieties; not plain vanilla. Colour;

bright and beautiful for all seasons appeal to my eye. The colours change

with the seasons: for winter pastel added to white captures the coldness of

our landscape, for summer the hot brightness of the sun, muted colours

appear in spring and autumn shows off the gold, copper and other metallic

colours we all love so much. Art and painting have taught me to see

everything differently and to try to see what more is surrounds me.

I consider that I am still a developing artist. In my latest series of paintings

I have tried to produce dimension. Then what happens is that the lighting

under different conditions adds its own dimension. The raised effect attracts

your attention at you view it from different angles. Shadows play against

each other. This is my new way of viewing the paintings. The subjects are

simple, but taken from life around me.

Some of Olive's Artwork

" APPLES "... watercolour painting.

" TWO AGES " ... ink sketch.

" GOLD MOON " ... watercolour painting.

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