From my early childhood, I loved embroidery, beadwork, sewing, painting, creating handicrafts with my own hands. I have a “sewing” dynasty – starting from my great-grandmother.
Everything that I love – creativity, needlework, history and symbolism in art, I combined in Motanka dolls.I started to do this since the art academy, where my friend brought her motanka to a lecture on the ethnography of Ukraine. It seemed to change my mind, directed my thoughts and calm me down. At the very same day, I began to spend all my free time and even at night I was trying to make my first dolls. I used all my salvia herbs as a filler, took fabrics and threads left over from my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, who worked as fashion designers.
I followed the call of my heart, people wanted me to make motanka’s and over the time this hobby became a full-fledged activity. Now I have a waiting list for about 1.5 years ahead. It is painstaking and creative process, like fine jewelry work, with expensive materials (for example, antique fabrics and embroidery, minerals and stones, etc.). I put a part of my soul in every motanka doll. My dolls reflect my worldview. Now I see my strong personal influence on the entire branch of this Ukrainian art.