ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Valentyna Rybkina was born in former USSR (Ukrainian Republic) in 1977 in the city of Donetsk. After graduating from Donetsk National University with a Master's in Politology and Sociology, she started to oil paint in 2013 as a self-taught artist influenced by great artists like Aivazovsky.She invites you to remember with her, through her paintings, the sunny and happy places you may have visited or plan to visit again and to see how beautiful nature is. She hopes you can forget all your problems, even momentarily, as you get lost in admiring the colours of her paintings, enjoy them and relax. Life is good, she says. ;)Valentyna is especially interested in painting seascapes (Ocean), landscapes and has always been passionate about flowers - these are the main thematic focus of all her works which she executes with oil paint on canvases.