I invite you to my Rainbow Surreal Garden

I'm continuing to explore a Fairy Garden series, inspired by Ukrainian naïve art and decorative folk art traditions such as Petrykivka and Samchykivka, and Mexican folk art.

I'm thrilled to share these works in a style I've just rediscovered — one that was always there, but hidden, even suppressed by my desire to fit in and adjust to market demands.

When I look back at my earliest personal artworks, they had a very similar aesthetic to what I'm drawing now. I always wanted to immerse myself in the combination of two worlds: one grounded in legends and fairy tales, rooted in the past yet ever-growing and transforming into the present and future; and one mysterious, dreamlike, otherworldly, full of undiscovered doors and windows into another dimension, a break from the perpetuity of everyday life. An intertwined world of decorative folk art & surrealism.

This is why I'm so in love with this combination of styles. And this is why, throughout my entire artistic life, I kept returning to it — no matter how I resisted, I was always pulled to it. For me, this style symbolises our existence, and the place of Art, Wonder, and Inspiration within it.

"Bird of the Hidden Garden"

"Rainbow Carrot"

"Rainbow Cake: When Each Slice Is Infinity"

"Where Multicoloured Rose Meet the Event Horizon"

"Confectioner from Fairy Garden Cafe"