Clean Katrin

I was born on December 8, 1990 in the city of Svetlovodsk, which is located on the banks of the Dnieper in Ukraine.  Since childhood, I loved to draw and dreamed of becoming an artist.  I attended and graduated from art school in my hometown, where I received the basics of fine art and developed my talent.  After school I entered the National Pedagogical University named after M.P.  Drahomanov in Kyiv, where I studied art education and pedagogy.  I successfully defended my master’s thesis on the topic “Artistic creativity as a means of personal development” and received a diploma as an artist-teacher of fine arts.

 During and after my studies, I actively participated in various exhibitions, competitions and artistic festivals, both in Ukraine and abroad.  I showed my works at all-Ukrainian and thematic exhibitions in Kyiv, Kharkov, Cherkassy, ​​Kropyvnytskyi, and other cities.  I also organized and held a personal exhibition in Svetlovodsk, where I presented my best paintings made in different techniques and genres.

 For me, creativity is not only a profession, but also a lifestyle.  I believe that through creativity I can communicate with God, get to know myself and the world around me.  I paint as I feel, before starting the process I enter a prayerful state and often ask God to give me what he wants.  It is very important for me to be constantly in a state of inspiration and pleasure during the process, so that my every movement is filled with love, if I don’t feel this, I stop the process, but often I start and finish paintings in one breath.  I don’t try to convey a specific idea, I don’t have one when I start working, the idea is born during the process as if by magic, for me it is very important to convey the state of inspiration and the moment of the present.

  We are all in a continuous creative process, and I believe that creativity that comes from the heart carries blissful and healing energy.