Kateryna Valova

Of Ukrainian origin, I live in France since 2009. I am proud to be impregnated with these two very rich cultures. I am a self-taught painter. I started painting for myself in 2016, because I had the need to express my feelings through a new art form. All my life I have been in contact with artistic fields: performing arts, music, singing, piano, flower arrangements, interior design. This passion for painting growing in me, gives me today the desire to share it and make it seen.

I have a great passion for traveling around the world which is a great source of inspiration for me. In addition to that being a sensitive woman I look for inspirations in emotions above all. This is especially true because I am personally touched by the war in Ukraine. Ukraine is destroyed more and more day by day. By the flight of some families who will not be able to return, because there will be no place to return. And by the courage of others who stayed there. By the fear of tomorrow that is unknown, because I don't even know who I will see again, I don't know when I go to bed if I will at least be able to hear the voice of my mom and dad, tomorrow... if my friends will still answer my texts... I don't know if I will ever see them again. I am inspired by all these events that will remain forever engraved in the memory of Ukrainians, in the memory of those who are in contact with their families and friends in Ukraine. But also, I remain convinced that Ukraine will win and I am inspired by the strength of this country.

All this guides my art today. The feelings shared between sadness, gratitude, anger, awareness of the beauty that surrounds us, depression, joy, hatred and oversized love.

In my creations, I try to adapt the colors, lines, shapes and shadows according to my personal feeling by seeking the mixture between the abstract and the figurative by simplifying the forms, by reinforcing the emotions to make my spectator travel.