Artist Irina Vitalievna Karkabi | Contemporary Ukrainian painter | Art & beauty

Irina Vitalievna Karkabi is a contemporary Ukrainian artist, born in 1960, in Kharkov, Ukraine, her parents scientists. Her artistic talent was noticed by those around her in early childhood. In 1982, almost immediately after graduating from the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, she, along with her husband and newborn son, moved to the city of Haifa in northern Israel ( occupied palestine ) , where she settled on the seashore.

There, at the Mediterranean crossroads of cultural ideas and artistic trends, Irina founded her studio. She paints exclusively in oil on canvas. The artist has repeatedly participated in international exhibitions, for example, at the Art Expo in New York and Los Angeles. Her works are in private collections in Israel, the USA and Europe. Early in her career, Irina wrote posters for the theater and illustrated children's books many times.

Today she mainly paints commissioned portraits, landscapes and figurative paintings. Irina's paintings explore the secrets of love and female beauty. Dynamism, sensuality, expression, femininity, dreaminess, romance, charm - all this is reflected in the artist's paintings. Based on the knowledge gained at the Academy in St. Petersburg and her own research on the work of the masters of the past of Greece, Egypt and works in the Art Nouveau style, she skillfully combines classical beauty with modern symbolism. Her eternal, most often female, images echoing with sensuality, explore the depths of the human psyche.