NoKalen 1550The oil painting on Canvas titled "Among the Reeds" immerses the viewer into a richly textured and vividly colored waterscape, where the natural world reveals its serene complexity. With energetic palette knife technique and bold impasto strokes, the artist captures the vitality and rhythm of a quiet day near a lake or riverbank, where tall reeds sway gently and boats drift lazily in the distance. Dominating the foreground are lush, sweeping reeds rendered in hues of ochre, cream, olive, and hints of violet. Their angular, diagonal strokes create a dynamic motion, suggesting a breeze rustling through their slender forms. These reeds do not merely frame the composition-they thrust forward, drawing the viewer into the painting, as if inviting one to step into this living landscape and feel the texture of the earth and wind. Beyond the reeds, the water opens wide in shimmering patches of turquoise, emerald, and slate blue, with reflective highlights and streaks of lavender and rose. The surface is broken by scattered boats, painted in red, white, and cobalt, their forms loose and spontaneous yet unmistakably present. The boats float peacefully, suggesting human presence without depicting figures-leaving the viewer to imagine who might be resting or rowing quietly across the water. The far shore rises with densely packed trees and vegetation, a symphony of greens, ochres, violets, and ultramarines. The forested background is painted in thick daubs and expressive lines, merging foliage and shadows into a unified mass that breathes with color and life. Though abstracted, the trees retain a sense of depth, and their layered branches form a protective barrier, embracing the calm waters below. Above it all, the sky expands in broad sweeps of pastel blue, lavender, white, and soft gray. Billowing clouds swirl across the canvas, painted with the same sculptural touch that defines the rest of the scene. Their rounded forms and shifting tones add both movement and softness to the composition, providing contrast to the sharper lines of the reeds and trees. The sky feels alive, almost tactile, echoing the layered complexity of the land and water.*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING **** TITLE: "Among the reeds"* ARTISTS: Oleksiy Ivanyuk* SIZE: 20x25 cm/'7.87x9.84 inches'* MEDIUM: oil, canvas* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection* CONDITION: Photos provide accurate information about the product.About the artist: Born March 13, 1954, in the city of Piryatin, Poltava region. He graduated from the Crimean Art College named after N. Samokish (1887). Teachers in the specialty: V. Grigoriev, M. Morgun, L. Gracer. Painter. The main genres are landscape, still life. The paintings are distinguished by emotional openness, warmth, affirm the harmony of life. Dominants of creativity are the deep roots of national traditions, Ukrainian cultural heritage. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2008). He taught fine art at the Pyryatinsky school - gymnasium of aesthetic education (1988-2008). At creative work. Participated in exhibitions: national and international (since 1978). Personal exhibitions - in Kiev (2003, 2007-2009), Lubny (Poltava region, California (USA; 2006), Poltava (2007, 2010), Priluki (Chernihiv region, 2008), Warsaw (2009). Main works: "Flowers field "(2007)," Still life with a daffodil "(2004)," Indian summer "(2007)," Birch "," Spiral panychi "," Kalina red "(2004)," Field of the sun "," Apple blossom ", "Evening Breath" (2005), "Silence", "Summer" (2006), "Sunflowers" (2007), "Plowed Field", "Such is Life ...", "In the Garden" (2009), "It's Cold" (2010). Individual paintings are stored in the National Museum of Art, National U. T. Shevchenko, Museum of Cultural Heritage in Kiev, Poltava Museum of Local Lore, lived and worked in the city of Poltava.

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