Gallery · real work, credited
Thirty-nine real things, and the name under each one
Paintings on paper, painted caskets, porcelain, medallions, the masters at their tables and the walls of the factory that no longer stands. Everything here is a real photograph of a real object, kept with the credit its licence requires and a link to the file it came from.
19 paintings
On paper, which is where it belongs
The historic ground of this painting is white — a limewashed wall or white paper. Every sheet below is shown on white for that reason.
The tree of life with a pair beneath it
A vazon composition on white paper: storks nesting at the crown, a couple in embroidered dress at the root.
Firebird over a red bloom
The bird motif at full stretch, with the sun in the corner and petushynnia carrying the tail.
Bird in a green wave
A bird set into a single sweep of leaves, with grains ranked along every stem.
Wreath of tulips and dark blooms
A closed round composition built from alternating tilts, which is what keeps a wreath from going mechanical.
Rose vazon on white
The vertical vazon in its plainest form, on the historic white ground.
Blue and violet bouquet
Transition strokes carry each petal from violet into blue without a seam.
Carpet of poppies and asters
The kylymok — a field composition that fills its rectangle evenly rather than building to a centre.
Corner spray with grasses
A corner composition, the form a painter uses on a chest lid or a door panel.
Violet crown
A single dominant bloom with beaded berries set by finger along its throat.
Ochre and green frieze
A horizontal band in the ochre-green range, close to what a painter would run along a wall.
Pink panel
A vertical panel of layered pink blooms, mounted on dark wood.
Painted plate, violet and crimson
A round plate worked as a wreath, photographed on a dark table.
Porcelain vase
Painted by Marfa Tymchenko
Overglaze painting on porcelain, made at the Kyiv experimental ceramic-art factory in the second half of the twentieth century.
Chest, «Blue flowers»
Painted by Nataliia Statyva-Zharko
A painted wooden chest in a cool blue range, away from the red-and-gold the factory made familiar.
Plate, «August»
A wooden plate with a peacock at its centre, ringed by a running border.
Poppies and cornflowers
A hand-painted sheet in the classic red-and-blue field pairing.
Casket with viburnum, 1980s
A wooden casket where the berry clusters show the finger technique clearly.
Casket with a bird, 1980s
Factory work on a black ground — the look the Druzhba factory made the public image of the craft.
Casket on black, about 1985
Ukrainian SSR production. The black ground is an industrial import and was never traditional here.
7 masters
The people holding the line now
Photographs of working masters, taken by people who went to see them.
Vasyl Sokolenko
Pata's pupil and the teacher of Andrii and Maria Pikush, photographed in 2016, two years before his death at 96.
Volodymyr Hlushchenko
Another of Sokolenko's pupils, in his workshop.
Hanna Samarska
Honoured Master of Folk Art of Ukraine.
Tetiana Harkava
Honoured Master and the author of the fullest illustrated manual of the painting.
Viktoriia Tymoshenko
At work in the studio.
Valentyna Nosenko
A master of the painting with her work.
Valentyna Karpets-Yermolaieva
Teaching the «Sun in the palm» circle; in 2025 a Shevchenko Prize laureate alongside Andrii and Maria Pikush.
5 objects
What the painting lives on
Caskets, boards, medallions and baubles — the everyday forms that carry the work out of the village.
Medallions
Small painted medallions laid on an embroidered cloth.
Painted boards on a market stall
Boards painted in the traditional manner, offered at a craft stall.
Kitchen boards, Poltava 2025
Everyday objects still carrying the painting, photographed in 2025.
Painted Christmas baubles
The painting on a seasonal object, which is how most households meet it today.
A figured board and medallions
Work in the traditional manner on small everyday forms.
5 places
Walls, tables and what is left of the factory
Painting on a wall
The tradition back where it started, on a wall rather than an object.
Blue frieze along a wall
A running border in a single colour, the simplest whole composition a painter makes.
What is left of the painting factory
The Petrykivka factory was stripped between 2001 and 2011; by 2014 only walls remained.
The factory entrance
The gate of the works that once employed ninety painters.
A workshop table
People painting Petrykivka at a public workshop, 2019.
3 in the record
Stamps and coins
Ukraine put the painting on its postage in 2000 and on its currency in 2016.
Postage stamps in honour of Tetiana Pata
Ukrposhta, 2000. A se-tenant honouring the teacher the school came from.
Commemorative coin, obverse
National Bank of Ukraine, «Petrykivka painting», 2016.
Commemorative coin, reverse
National Bank of Ukraine, «Petrykivka painting», 2016.
How this gallery grows
Claim a work, or send us yours
Several pieces here carry no painter’s name, because the source that made them public did not record one. If you recognise a hand — your own, your mother’s, your teacher’s — write to us and the name goes under the work.
Masters sending their own work get the page built around them: the author, the ground, the materials, the year and the rights, recorded properly.
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