ART FOR UKRAINE
Discover our creative supporters!
We’d like to share with you amazing artwork created specially for our charity to fundraise for our charitable causes. We are immensely grateful to the artists who contributed their time and talent to support Ukraine and hope you’ll be able to follow their creative work.
Maggie Martin
My name is Maggie and I live in a village in Sussex. I have always loved both flowers and art so when I took early retirement I decided to study botanical art and combine the two! I was fortunate to be accepted on the Diploma Course with the Society of Botanical Artists and graduated in 2016. Since then I have thoroughly enjoyed painting all kinds of botanical items from Turks Head Squash to strawberries and Wedding Bouquets!
I am lucky that my home is in a beautiful floral area and my husband keeps an allotment so I am rarely short of materials!
I am so happy to have been able to raise some funds with my art and hope to continue to do so.
Khrystyna Khmil
Krystyna Khmil, originally from the village of Hvizd, Ivano-Frankivsk region in Western Ukraine, until recently was living in Kyiv. She’s obtained her initial training at the Shevchenko College of Fine Arts, majoring in painting. In 2019 she graduated from the National Academy of Arts and Architecture, the Faculty of Painting and Composition in the studio of Mykola Storozhenko and was awarded a master's degree with honors. Krystyna focuses on the study of personal identity, connections and communication, human freedom and stereotypes. She works with various mediums including graphics, digital art, AR and VR technology. Krystyna takes an active part in both group and individual projects, and her works featured in a number of exhibitions: “Habitat. Manifesto 2020” at the Lavra Cathedral Art Gallery (Kyiv), “Who am I today” (Kyiv), Sansara: III Ukrainian Contemporary Women's Art Fest (Kyiv) and many others. Many of Christina's works are in private collections in the USA, Germany, Belarus and Ukraine.
These 2 paintings - number 5 and number 6 from the series "Freedom" were painted on 21st April, on the 57th day of the full-scale war. Artist's quote: "Freedom is part of human existence."
Pearl Swift-Vyner
My name is Pearl and I’m 9 years old. I’ve always been really into art from a very early age. I was very lucky to have one to one lessons with a talented artist. She really helped me bring out the inner artist and helped me develop and learn new techniques. I love drawing and painting animals. I love using various mediums in my art and enjoy creating different textures and elements.