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Olga Lutsenko was born
in Ukraine. Both of her
parents were creative
people within their own
fields: the mother was a
teacher and professional
singer, while her father
was an engineer and an
inventor. The parents
and grandmother have
encouraged artistic
talent in Olga during
childhood with wonderful
storytelling, dream
interpretation and folk
teachings. This
generated a strong
interest, which made
Olga truly believe in
all of the facets of the
fantasy world with its
diversity of picturesque
colours and forms. She
began creating:
interpreting, feeling,
learning and experiences
through the eyes of a
curious child.
Olga started working
after study as an
architect in city
council of Kiev. She
also worked as an
engineer in National
Scientific Department
experimenting with power
and water in
Ukraine.
Later her career took
Olga to
Siberia to work as senior architect in Baikal (Amur Mail Lane
Construction in
Siberia).
Further Olga worked as a
senior designer in
Health Resort project
(Moscow). She also
worked as a senior
interior
designer/architect in
Deck-Art (Kiev). Once
arrived in Australia she
worked a curator for
Western Gallery and an
artist. Consequently,
Olga is a professional
architect, interior
designer, artist, silk
painter, folk art
artist, etching,
sculpture; all of which
contribute to her depth
of artistic expression
and aesthetic quality.
However, irrelevantly of
where life took Olga,
her soul always brought
her back to her art:
“I paint because it has
brought me more
satisfaction and
pleasure than anything
else in my life, and I
hope that this will
continue. I paint with
great emotion. To me
painting is a process
and stage in my life.
You can understand and
read me through my
paintings. My goal is to
create story with
feelings, beautify,
movement. My art is an
escape from reality, but
it gives a greater
beauty that maybe a
higher reality”.
Olga undertook an
intensive study of
painting at the
Ukrainian Folk Art
School, which granted
her the honorary title
of Master if Folk Art.
This allowed for Olga to
produce forms that were
once rooted in the
ancient traditions,
songs, storytelling,
myths and life
experiences of her
childhood. Ethnography
studies helped to
understand significance,
believes, heritage which
she wished to share with
the world:
“I paint for the
survival of my soul
irrespective of the
circumstances in my
life. I feel like I can
express myself, my inner
pains and gains, through
the wonderful world of
art”.
The art should be
positive, free,
romantic, encouraging
and deeply beautiful;
something like a
precious jewel,
something which you
cannot do without.
“Today like every other day, we wake up empty
And frightened, don’t open the door to the
Study and begin reading. Take down a
Musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and
Kiss the ground”.
Rumi
Life’s beauty and
harmony are the most
important and necessary
ingredients in art. Olga
entwines the
magnificence of harmony
in nature in her art,
which when combined with
the experiences and
feelings, creates the
history and its
interpretations. Art is
not just a moment;
rather it is a
reflection of a lifetime
of moments.
Olga’s great interest in
different cultures and
arts has inspired her to
intensely travel through
East, West, North and
South. She encountered
many different cultures
and acquired a consuming
passion for them. She
visited many major art
exhibitions all over the
world and underwent
extensive study at one
of the world’s leading
art colleges at Heritage
State Museum in St
Petersburg.
Olga’s own style draws
from these powerful
influences, in addition
to her inner artistic
bold concepts of colours
and forms, which ingrain
energy and mood into all
of her work mediums:
“Art has to touch you
somewhere.
In art I can paint life
as I see it.
I like my work to touch
people’s minds where
they have never been
touched before. I hope
by doing so I am helping
them to discover
themselves”.
Her broad range of
expressive styles
including sculpture,
clay works, textiles,
etching, silk screening,
linocut, mix medium, oil
and acrylic, range from
the highly detailed
traditional through to
the abstract expression:
“My inspiration combines
European Primitive and
Naïve Arts, as well as
an association with the
Art Nouveau (where the
decorative elements are
autonomous within the
work of art) and
Symbolism which allows
me going beyond realism
and express in work the
mysterious and ambiguous
realm of the
imagination”.
Olga believes that we
are part of the earth
and the earth is part of
us. Through the ages,
humans altered their
environment; hence,
achieving harmony with
nature is critical for
our survival. The artist
has appropriated images
from the natural world
to express its
regenerative power and
the urgency of us being
the catalyst for the
sustainability and
prosperity of the
nature:
“Artists can do good for
others only if they
demonstrate a feasible
way of creation thus
giving hope through
introducing patterns of
life and possible ways
of recreation and
appreciation of harmony
amongst everything
alive. The artist has
the duty to give people
hope. I demonstrate to
people a paradise that
can belong to everyone
if only they will reach
out for it.
I think artists should
care.
If something is
horrible, they must
fight it and make it
better.
If it is ugly, they must
make it beautiful.
If something is
pervious, they must try
to untangle that
perversity.
If something is
convoluted, we have to
try to even it out”.
“When God said: “My
hands are yours”
I saw that I could heal
any creature in
this world.
I saw that the divine
beauty in each
heart
Is in the root of all
time and space.”
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