Silence

Hanna Petrivna Oliinyk was a Ukrainian artist, a member of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine from 1977. and an Honored Artist of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea starting in 2004. Born on July 2, 1924 in the village of Velykyi Ostrozhok (now Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine), she graduated from the Fine Arts Studio in Zaporizhzhia. Later, she moved to Crimea, where for more than 50 years she worked in the workshops of the "Society of Artists of Yalta" and in the Yalta organization of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Oliinyk completed a large number of design projects for the decoration of cinemas, hotels, hospitals. She donated paintings and graphic works of art to museum funds, galleries, and orphanages. She worked in the field of easel painting and was a master of still life and landscape. Starting in the 1960s, she participated in regional, republic, and international art exhibitions. Among her works are "Jasmine" (1970), "Still Life with Geraniums" (1976), "Wildflowers" (1978), "Autumn" (2020), "First Snow" (2020), and others. The artist's last major solo exhibition took place in 2004 (about 200 works were exhibited). The artist's works are kept in museums, private galleries, exhibition halls in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, England, France, Japan, and the USA. She died on April 25, 2022 in Yalta.