I am most drawn to narrative painting that looks at fact, fiction and fable to explore the parallel realms of reality in our everyday lives.

In my series, "Рудий ліс" (Red Forest in Ukranian), I explore a nuclear accident 25 years after the fact, looking at the fate of the flora and fauna surrounding it. In essence, I paint a contemporary Fairy Tale lived out loud of an ancient Forest. One day a happy forest blossoming into spring, the next, a dead forest turned ginger red from radiation poisoning.

Рудий ліс is my visual tale of a woods (the size of Yosemite) that was once buried alive in fact, fiction and fable, by a frightened government. It's a tale of how Рудий ліс has rallied into a new forest. A radiated Russian Eden, filled with an astonishing array of trees, flowers, birds, wolves, deer, insects, wild boar and more. All radiated! So radiated that no humans dare to disturb them...