Nina Shupliak

Nina Shupliak was born on 4 January 1939 in the village of Rakhny-Poliovi of Tyvriv Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast (now Tyvriv Hromada of Vinnytsia Raion of Vinnytsia oblast of Ukraine).^[1][3][4]

In 1959, she graduated from the Zalishchyky Agricultural Tekhnikum, and in 1978 from the Ternopil Pedagogical Institute. She lives in the village of Bishche (now Ternopil Raion), where she worked as an agronomist, a teacher of fine arts and biology, a head teacher and a principal of a local school.^[1][3][4]

At the age of 13–14, she started painting on glass. The artist mastered this technique on her own. During the 1960s and 1980s, her works were in almost every house in the villages of Bishche, Poruchyn, and Urman in the Ternopil Raion. Some of them remained in Vinnytsia Oblast.^{[1][3][4][5][6]}

He works in the style of naïve art (1950s–1970s) and author's folk painting (1980s–2020s). This can be traced in the subject matter of everyday life, portraits, still lifes, landscapes, icons and religious paintings.^[1][3][4] Her works are characterized by vibrant colors and a harmonious combination of numerous shades of pure, saturated hues.^[1]

Major works:^[1][3]

• "Divchata z vinochkamy", "Vedmedyky" (1959);
• "Divchyna z olenem" (early 1960s);
• "Buket", "Troiandy" (1961–1963);
• "Portret T. Shevchenka" (1960s, 1970s);
• "Lisova pisnia" (1970s);
• "Yikhav kozak na viinonku" (1970s),
• "Portret I. Franka", "Teche voda iz-za haiu...", "Sadok vyshnevyi kolo khaty...", "Kozak vidizhdzhaie, a divchyna plache..." (1970s-1980s);
• "Rizdvo Khrystove", "Sviata Rodyna" (2007–2008) and others.

In September 2017, the Berezhany Museum of Local Lore [uk]; opened an exhibition by Nina Shupliak entitled "Maliarstvo na skli".^[7][8]