My hobby

Irina’s creative journey started in 1993 and has evolved towards oil painting starting from 2008. The first exhibition presented in Kyiv on December 2021 highlights her successful landscape works, emotional triptych “Ladybugs”, and landscapes, reflecting the multidimensionality of life.

“Painting is a secret side of life. When you give yourself 100% to professional and social activity, it is extremely important to have a zone of inner peace. And this is exactly what painting is. I paint from inspiration, without having any artistic education.” says Iryna Melnychenko.

In 2021, an exhibition of paintings by Iryna Melnychenko took place in Kyiv. The magazine Evening Kyiv publication wrote about an exhibition of her paintings.

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Thanks to the atmosphere created at home, the need to express her own emotions through words appeared at a very early age. The combination of activities creates Iryna’s ability to see the world in diversity, make extraordinary decisions and find new ideas that may be completely innovative or already known in other fields, through analogy with nature.

The collection currently consists of more than 400 poems on various topics and is still rising.