Valentyna Royenko
Valentyna Royenko was born in Ukraine. She has a Masters of Art degree in Textile Art and Design from Lviv Academy of Decorative Art. For many years, Valentyna was a top designer in the Ukrainian textile industry and won many official awards and contests for her textile designs.
She has experimented in other areas of fiber art and has created miniature silk tapestries, and silk paintings, art quilts, and art felts. Her artwork is admired around the world and is found in museums and private collections throughout Europe, North America, and New Zealand.
From 1997 through 2000, Valentyna Royenko was a distinguished professor of art at Kiev National University of Culture and Art and headed very successful programs during her tenure.
Since 2001, Valentyna has been living and exhibiting in California, and today, she continues to explore the amazing and inspiring possibilities of fiber, while pursuing her dreams in the USA.
Artistist Statement
Color is the spiritual language that reveals my being, the movement of my soul from my darkest days to the light of the full spectrum of my new life. Color is the medium that blends my old life with my new.
My life has been full of strong emotion, which has been imprinted on my soul and reflected in my art. I have experienced the universal feelings of love and pain, sorrow and exultation. I was thrown down into the depths of darkness and despair from which I almost did not recover. However, in time, this experience became a catalyst for my artistic work, forever altering my sense of color, forcing me to work only with abstraction.
My art is a metaphor for my personal journey on the road to self-realization, a journey from death to renewal. The colors and images of my work are a direct translation of how my soul sees the world. Each painting tells a chapter of my life and functions as a vital part of the whole - my life experience.
