FKK School Library
This mural has been designed and created by Oksana Zhelisko to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Father Kenneth Kearns Catholic School (FKK) in Sherwood Park. Sponsored by BUCPS and SAC.
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I am a Woman
I would like to present my last series of portraits entitled “I am a Woman”. I am a woman with secrets and mysteries. I am a woman that can build or ruin. I am a woman who can laugh or cry without tears in my eyes. I am a woman who is hard to understand but so nice to overtake. New life begins inside of me, new worlds start with me – because I am a woman. Tender...Cute...Kind...Emotional... Fretful...Free...Weak...Strong... I am A Woman!
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Nudes
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Portraits
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Portraits
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Portraits
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Still Life
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Still Life
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Urbanites
As of late, in my new works, the most exciting place that has given me and continues to give great inspiration and incitement for new ideas is the city of L’viv. Last summer, after 7 years of being away, I looked at it with new eyes. There is so much beauty that surrounded me for most of my life and I was too blind or ignorant to notice it. This time I captured and inhaled all the details of the buildings, churches, fountains and squares. I combined it with everlasting beauty of Ukrainian women and voila – new perspectives on landscape and portrait in general were brought together.
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Retro Girls
My last series of paintings I called Retro Girls. I have always been fascinated by roaring 20'es: fashion, dancing and style. I wanted to create a story, dialogs, portraying these women. I managed to combine my passion of retro and an impressionistic style. It helped me to spark the story on the canvases. I have painted narratives from everyday life. These paintings about woman: friendship, fun, gossip. I didn't want to capture the moment (photographic reality, which is not what I see when I look at things around me) rather capture the present mood, atmosphere and a story behind it. What are they talking about? - You ask me. I don't know. I am leaving this question to the audience, as every person can interpret it differently. And that is the beauty of it.
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Portraits
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Twelve Months-A Dozen Moods
It is very interesting to observe how the seasons change. Every month is unique, different and beautiful in its own way. I have always seen an intricate relation between the months of different seasons with woman; their moods and emotion are changing constantly. That is how the idea for these series was born. I have been observing and learning from each season's months to create a series of women's portraits. Some of them are sad some of them are strong, some are happy and carefree and some are deep and self observed. But there is one thing they all have in common that we, women, have in common - individuality.
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