Mariia Shyshatska

Biography

Mariia Shyshatska was born on October 18, 1921 in Petrykivka. In 1939, she graduated from the Petrykivka School of Decorative Drawing under the direction of Tetiana Pata, one of the last graduates of the school before it was closed due to the war.

After graduation, from 1939 to 1941, she worked as an artist at the Rosa Luxemburg Artel in the village of Lityky in the Kyiv region. After returning to Petrykivka, from 1945 to 1956 she worked as an embroiderer in the Free Peasant Artel. in 1958, when the artel opened a workshop for underlaid painting, she became one of the first sixteen masters of the Druzhba factory and worked there until 1971. Since 1972, she has been working from home.

She is the mother of the master of Petrykivka painting Anatolii Chernuskyi, to whom she passed on the tradition.

She died on May 15, 1996 in Petrykivka.

Artistic Practice

Mariia Shyshatska worked in several techniques: embroidery, decorative painting on paper, and underlacquer painting on wood. Her favorite motifs include flowers, birds, and viburnum.

Among her famous works: “Flowers” (1960), “Decorative Bouquet” (1962), “White-bellied Magpie” (1966), “Birds in Blue” (1970), “Bouquet” (1970), “Dahlias” (1976), “Wreath” (1986); “Viburnum” boxes (1960, 1968); decorative plate “Firebird” (1971).

Recognition

Participant of all-Ukrainian art exhibitions since 1949, decadal - since 1960. Her works are kept in the Dnipro Art and History Museums and the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art in Kyiv.