Victoria Kamiway
The Shapes of Silence
The Shape of Silence is about how everyday routine can become poetry. The materials for this creative experiment were supermarket products and flowers that I found during daily walks with my daughter. To me this collection is about being present in each moment and not waiting for a perfect time. Instead, making your own poetry out of daily routine, and learning to appreciate ordinary things as if they were the very best life has on offer.
Olena Chepkalenko
Nature speaks
Walking in nature and interaction with it - this is a universal and accessible opportunity return to yourself and feel connected to something truly beautiful - our planet Earth. Just looking at water or walking barefoot on the grass heals and feeds the inner fire in the best way. The photos capture those amazing moments that I spent in nature.
Artwork for sale:
each of 2 - £50
Yuliia Ustymenko
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LifeWaves
This work begins with a black square – a symbol of life’s frame, the starting point.
From the darkness, a spark appears – the wish to create. It into a circle, like the face of a clock.
Life moves in cycles, in waves: moments of energy and inspiration, and moments of exhaustion. Then it begins again.
The piece took months of preparation and two weeks to build. It is made of 12,160 matches.
Each match is a flame. Together they form the rhythm of life. The message is simple: never stop dreaming,never stop beginning again,never stop lighting your inner spark.
Instagram: @yuliia.art_yu
Website: art-yu.com
Artwork for sale:
Square big- £4460
Square small - £350
For both - £4560
Lidiya Shevaga
Life cycle
The cycle of life is an art-composition that _live_great in all possible sense. Everyone is born as a diamond and starts their life from a clean slate. The main thing is to keep focus only on the positive!
Instagram: @lidiyas_handmade
Natalia Babych
Bloom after burn
A burned-out soul accumulating hidden strength and beauty is shown through a metaphor of porcelain flowers growing from a stone. The stone represents the soul hardened from trauma, grief, depression or life hardships. The flowers represent inner strength and rebirth with a special emotional value for love, strength, dignity and hope.
Instagram: @nb_ceramics
Natasha Mikhailova
Many Faces of Me: A Sequin Self-Portrait Series
I deeply believe that individuals have the power to take on the role of a match to illuminate and change everything around them. This series of self-portraits is transformed into deeply personal avatars. Each head carries a different face of who I am, reflecting not only how I see myself, but also how I feel myself changing across places and memories.
Instagram: @natasha.art.fun
Nataliia Danova
Burnout
Burnout is an installation of stitched tracing paper sheets with burned-out text, reflecting the exhaustion and silenced voices of those whose stories Nataliia once carried as an interpreter and military linguist. Each page is both fragile and scarred, balancing between disappearance and persistence. The work embodies the quiet violence of emotional erosion and the traces left where language collapses.
Malvina Kustro
Just out of name. (I’m talking about it)
We live in a time when constant, reliable things change, acquiring a different meaning or simply lose it. In the world of fictional realities and non-existent characters, we move away from the real world, burning our lives. My work is the depiction of a tree as a part of nature with matches made of wood. Artificial structured trees as an imitation of nature are devoid of life and meaning.
Viktoriia Volosnyk
Ignis Vocem
Ignis Vocem ( Fire’s Voice from Latin) explores the paradoxical nature of fire—a force of both destruction and profound creation. Using the ancient art of pyrography, Viktoriia burns forest landscapes into wood transforming a flame into a tool of creation. This work invites reflection on voice of fire exploring its power, harmony, transformation and care for nature.
Instagram: @victoriavolosnik
Kateryna Tsyvunova
Forced Migrant
This piece is a reflection of my personal experience as a forced migrant.
There is a popular saying: "A person is not a tree — if you’re unhappy where you are, you can always move." It suggests freedom—the ability to change your job, your home, your country. I used to agree with it. But when war erupts and you are forced to flee to survive, you don’t move—you are uprooted.
People like me are not just travelers—we are like trees torn out by a storm. We were growing, building lives, raising families, making plans. And then, in a moment, everything collapses. You’re not emotionally or mentally prepared. The decision to flee—to save your life—comes like a lightning strike. All you think about is protecting what matters most: life itself. In my case, the life of my child.
When I left, I took only two things with me: myself and my daughter.
This artwork expresses how I feel today. I am that uprooted tree—its roots scorched by the fire of war, dried out from endless stress and tears. The roots search desperately for new ground, but they cannot yet hold. I exist in a suspended state.
The country and society that welcomed me offer support—represented here by the crutches holding up the tree’s roots. But it is not yet stability. Not yet certainty.
Beneath the tree is the soil of a new land—a new country where I am trying to settle. But my focus is not on myself anymore. My only purpose now is to give my child a future.
That hope is symbolized by the young tree sprouting from the trunk of the old one. It represents my daughter—growing, thriving, starting a new life. I nourish her with all I have left.
But that growth comes through sacrifice.
This work is not just about pain—it's about resilience, about love, and about the silent strength that comes from a mother who chooses survival over despair
Instagram: @kate_art_1985
Antonina Strilets
While the flame lasts
This triptych is a reflection on the brevity of human life. A match ignites, Mother Earth gives life to a child and sends the cradle adrift on the river of time. A match burns, symbolizing the flow of human life. A match goes out, the smoke rises upward, like a soul ascending to heaven.
Instagram: @ant.strilets
Artwork for sale:
Each of 3 - £250
Together - £600
Margo UA
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Ukraine scream
This work is revealing my feelings and my emotional state about the war and another genocide against Ukraine that is currently going on, and Myself being forced to leave my beautiful Home for such endless years…
I must scream out the PAIN of my blessed Homeland, which is my own pain. And I just want it to be heard…
Instagram: @margo24_ua
Valentyna Dolottseva
Small things
What can small things tell us: a matchstick, a knitted stitch, a cell in our body, or a human being? Sometimes I might think, ‘I am insignificant or without achievement... can I be valuable and happy?’ However, will following other people lead to a genuine me, and happiness?
Instagram: @vastu__wellbeing
Yulia Olkhovska
The thread of your lifetime
Responding to Small things by Valentina Dolottseva, I created this artwork in a state of silence. I tried to listen to myself and put down some meaningful thoughts that have turned into verses. The words are silent but they start speaking to everyone who is reading them either silently or out loud.
Yelyzaveta Deviatkina
Low start
The potential energy of ignition, deeply hidden from the viewer within tense muscles, became the inspiration and foundation of this work. The subject of the painting appears motionless, yet with the strength of a beast ready to spring from ambush in pursuit of its prey. All he lacks is a single spark to ignite a raging forest fire — but he waits.
Instagram: @vallliza
Alina Filatova
Silent Blaze
Like a match, I shine for everyone while burning out from within, leaving behind nothing but ashes. Realizing that I needed help was the first step towards healing. Anonymous notes from real people gave me an understanding that I was not alone. I transform pain into connection, vulnerability into strength, and ashes into the spark for something new.
Instagram: @filstory_com
Alena Rogozkina
When it nearly didn’t happen
This artwork is an attempt to visually articulate the spectrum of emotions I have experienced while trying to bring ‘a match is silent, but it speaks showcase’ to life over the past six months. The journey has been marked by significant challenges including funding rejections, a severe lack of resources, and constant pressure on time and energy. At times, it felt as though the showcase is a distant dream. It feels vulnerable and perhaps a little strange to share these inner struggles, but I believe that doing so allows the story of a match is silent, but it speaks to be told with complete honesty.
Instagram: @alenarogozkina.art
Naddia Huta
Nadiia Huta
I am a traveller who found myself. A process like a visible and invisible path. One that I myself felt, created, and walked. I listened to inner voices that guided me. Every day I was a traveller.
At each moment, internally created and recreated myself. I found myself from point to point. Only in the silence could I hear my inner voice. I became light, like a butterfly. Each day I felt my lightness more and more until I dissolved in the wind.
The reflection in the raindrops gave me the opportunity to see myself not in the present, but from the future. I felt the highest forces and energies at this point. I was filled with each new place’s energy, atmosphere and the feelings of those present. There was a mutual exchange.
The path was overcome, and I found silence, within myself.
Instagram: @nadiaguta
Sofiia Kutsenok
Rebirth
Ashes. Rebirth. Life. This animation is more than a project, it is a discovery and self-reflection. It is a reflection of resilience. Of my country. Of myself. It took a lot of effort, both technical and mental. Fire. Sirens. Birds. Every detail matters. Transformation. Of hope. It's a reminder. A promise. From ashes, we rise.
LinkedIn: sofiiakutsenok
Instagram: @sonyakh.art
Matthew Morpheus
Game on
The work is inspired by the visual culture of The Matrix and the aesthetics of future techno-shamans. I created a space where the viewer not only watches but feels.. Where illusion offers more truth than a screen does. To me, it is important that the viewer asks themselves, ‘Where does the game end and reality begin?’, ‘Is this just another simulation we are living in?’
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Instagram: @matthew_morpheus
Kostyantin Kushnir
Questions without answers
Time seems to have stopped. I started to feel bombarded with the Ukrainian news over the last three years, when people kept suffering from russian attacks and its consequences.It is hard for me to imagine, to feel. Those Ukrainians who remained in the country feel this strongly. They look up and ask, ‘Why?’ or they shout to the heaven, ‘Why?’.. They light up like matches without receiving an answer.
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Instagram: @kukaluart
Alina Litvinova
Fire collection
I have selected fire sources from different eras, each with a story behind them. From ancient times to the future, from the physical to the intangible yet, I invite you to look at this carefully curated range. Whether these fire sources look cool or not, this is a lit and fire collection anyway.
Instagram: @al.alitarta
Olha Reshetova
Pavuk (Spider)
Pavuk is one of the oldest Ukrainian ritual objects. Made from repeating modules of dry wheat, it reflects early Ukrainian understandings of cosmic balance and the structure of the world. During the war in Ukraine, symbols like the Pavyk remind us of our roots and the unbroken spirit carried through generations.
Instagram: @olha_reshetova_