ELIZABETH MARTYNIUK ARTIST
ARTIST STATEMENT
Elizabeth Martyniuk is drawn to decorative details that carry traces of time — columns, vases, swans, flowers, ceramic patterns, architectural fragments, and forgotten domestic symbols. These objects feel both personal and collective, like memories preserved in material form.
Through painting, I reinterpret these references using bright colors, playful compositions, and layered textures. I combine classical forms with contemporary visual language, mixing elegance with irony, nostalgia with spontaneity. Repetition of motifs becomes a way to study beauty, ornament, and emotional attachment to objects.
I am interested in how decoration can hold emotion and storytelling. Flea market finds often contain anonymous histories, while architectural facades reflect cultural memory and human desire for beauty. In my paintings, these elements are transformed into dreamlike scenes where the ordinary becomes theatrical, symbolic, and alive.
My practice exists between drawing and ornament, humor and sentimentality, structure and improvisation. I see each work as a conversation between the past and the present a playful reconstruction of visual memories.
BIO
Elizabeth Martyniuk (b. 1998, Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a contemporary artist currently based in Vienna. Her work combines painting, ornament, and storytelling, creating playful visual worlds inspired by vintage objects, flea market finds, decorative architecture, and everyday sentimental imagery.
She spent her childhood and youth in Kyiv, where she received a classical art education. Martyniuk studied at the Kyiv Children’s Academy of Arts and later at the T.G. Shevchenko State Art High School, specializing in fine art. In 2019, she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv with a degree in graphic design. Her background in both academic painting and contemporary design strongly influences her visual language, where traditional forms meet bright color palettes and graphic experimentation.
Before fully dedicating herself to painting, Elizabeth worked as a graphic designer. In 2022, following the full-scale war in Ukraine, she relocated to Vienna. This experience became a significant turning point in her artistic practice, leading her to return to painting as a personal and emotional necessity.
Her works are filled with architectural fragments, decorative motifs, flowers, swans, columns, ceramics, and imagined domestic scenes that exist somewhere between memory and fantasy. Combining irony, tenderness, and ornamentation, Martyniuk transforms ordinary objects into symbolic and dreamlike compositions. Through her paintings, she explores beauty as a form of emotional preservation and creates spaces where nostalgia, humor, and imagination coexist.
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