Eugenia Gapchinska is an artist who calls herself the "number one provider of happiness" in her country, Ukraine. She proclaimed herself with this nickname because her main opinion about any kind of art, especially visual art, is that it is not made to represent and spread happiness and well-being.
In addition, she is the highest paid artist in Ukraine. With the international popularity that she has acquired over the years, Eugenia annually holds more than a dozen new exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, France, Belgium, England, the Netherlands and other countries.
Evgenia is 38 years old, born in Kharkiv in a military family.
After the eighth grade, he entered the Art school de Kharkiv in the department of "teacher of the Art School for Children" (art school for children), from which he graduated with honors.
Then he entered the Institute of Art and Industry de Kharkiv at the "painting" faculty, where only five people were recruited for this department. Three people made it to the end of the training, where they spent just over six years.
While studying at the institute, he did an internship at the Academy of Arts de Nuremberg. After graduating from high school with a red diploma, one given to the most outstanding students, he did not paint for a long time.
Her infamously quirky style of appearance didn't happen overnight, and for a woman with such a long-term education background, developing her own personal style was quite a journey.
He worked as a manager, as a manicurist, in an advertising agency, in the center of Soros, in a plastic sales company, and more until one day he realized that he was specializing in a field that did not interest him. It was finally in the mid-1990s that he quit his shift job and got a job at the gallery. srebni dzvoni as a healer. At that moment, she again began to draw.
The artist tried to exhibit in other galleries, but they did not accept her anywhere else, claiming that she is not “her artist”.
In 2000, with a son, he moved to Kiev, where he was able to find patrons and an art house in which he found magic and delicacy in their colors. It has remained there to carry out and spread his work.
She, a self-taught artist, believes that her paintings are outside the canon, but at the same time, she feels freer. According to herself, she does not feel the strict schooling that requires following each law of nature when transferring body structure and anatomy to a canvas, as with people; however, she carries them out so much that she considers them crucial to writing and carrying out their portraits.
As a result, his work becomes extraordinary and fascinating for locals and foreigners.
The artist has several private galleries in Ukraine y Russia. Currently, and even despite the war conditions, his works are stored in European museums and private collections of artists and art lovers, others are in collections of well-known Russian and Ukrainian actors, TV presenters and singers. His paintings have even been bought by Luciano Pavarotti.
En Kiev, Odessa y Dnipropetrovsk you can find galleries of gapchinska - "Galleries of Happiness", and not only paintings but also bags, pillows, plates, books and more.
