About Natalia Lugovskaya

Natalia Lugovska (b. 1969, Zaporizhia, Ukraine) is an oil painter whose artistic language unites photorealism, symbolism, and surrealism. From her early years she was fascinated by creativity—designing, crafting, and experimenting with forms—before dedicating herself fully to painting.

Between 2010 and 2012 she studied at the Repin Art School under the guidance of the Honored Artist of Ukraine Alexander Lysenko, and later continued her practice in the studios of established Ukrainian painters. This period helped her refine her technique and find her own artistic voice.

Lugovska builds her works from her own photographs, transforming them digitally before translating them into oil on canvas. Yet her goal is never to reproduce reality precisely: she seeks to transcend it, turning fleeting natural forms—flowers, water, light—into metaphors that carry emotional depth, memory, and subconscious meaning. Each painting becomes a space where beauty and mystery meet, and where the visible world opens into a poetic, dreamlike dimension.

Her artistic journey has led to international recognition, including participation in Kiev Art Week (2019, Zenko Gallery), the 58th Venice Biennale (Falling Shadow: Dreams in the Gardens of Giardini), the exhibition Kreativ ist die Frau in Germany (2023), and Exploring the Power of Womanhood at Mriya Gallery, New York (2024).

Through her work, Natalia Lugovska invites viewers into a contemplative dialogue—between reality and imagination, the visible and the hidden, the fleeting and the eternal.