Lydmila Kushneryova (Yazenko)

Lyudmila Kushneryova is a member of the Leaque of the Artists of the USSR (1990), a member of the National League of the Artists of Ukraine, a Merited Painter of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea (2003).In 2000 Kushneryova was awarded the medal of the «Veteran of Labour».

Lyudmila Kushneryova was born on July 18, 1946 in the settlement of Volnovakha Donetsk region. Her mother, Darya Andrejevna Yazenko was a nurse in a kindergarten. Her father, Grigory Terentjevich Yazenko worked at a plant of heavy machine building. There were two daughters in the Yazenko’s family. When the Great Patriotic War began Grigory Yazenko went to front. He was only 17.Grigory was a scout. He fought at the fronts of Ukraine, Poland and finished war in Berlin. Grigory was awarded two Orders of the Red Star.

Since childhood Lyudmila has been fond of drawing. That’s why at 11 she began to attend an art school. Lyudmila got the first lessons of art from the People’s Ukraine painter Polina Antonovna Shakalo.In 1959 Kushneryova moved to Simferopol and entered the Crimean Art College named after N.Samokish, the famous academician of the battle painting. She finished it in 1969.Her teachers were the famous masters of painting, such as Elena Heints, Anatoly Shipov, Leo Balkind.

The Crimean Art College named after N.Samokish

«The Beautiful in art is the truth fused with the impression got by us from nature» Kamil Coreau A deep love for nature became

a source of her creativity. Her works are devoted to the nature of different corners of the Crimea. Landscapes and still-lives prevail in her paintings. Her works are exhibited not only in Ukraine but also abroad in France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan. Lyudmila Kushneryova is rightly called a classic of water colour. Her works seem alive and are full of the romanticism.

Lyudmila Kushneryova did succeed in depicting trees. She loves and understands them. They are very expressive, especially bare, ones the trunks and mixed branches. The trees have a symbolic meaning in her landscapes. Through depicting the trees Lyudmila strived to pass and find out a special world- the world of the Earth and trees which gain their right to life in struggle.

Nature in Kushneryova’s water colours speaks to a man, narrating its condition.

«While breathing the aroma of spring and flower I catch a quick moment And began writing A beautiful creation»

Lyudmila Kushneryova

The moral sense of art is very important for a painter. Nature opens its mysterious world: an old town, crooked streets on the background of the mountains and a thunder sky, seaside, numerous panorama views. But the landscape is possibility to show your own admiration of the perfection of nature.