Running through the sun (2023) by Ihor Melnyk - subjektiv.art
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Ihor Melnyk
Artist from Ukraine
IHOR MELNYK
Ihor Melnyk is a Ukrainian artist working in the field of contemporary painting and abstract landscape. He was born in 1985 in Stryi, Lviv Region, Ukraine, where he currently lives and works.
In his artistic practice, Melnyk explores nature, space, memory, and the inner states of human experience. His paintings are not literal representations of reality, but rather emotional and visual reinterpretations of it. Through colour, texture, rhythm, and composition, the artist develops a distinctive visual language in which the landscape is transformed into an abstract image.
In 2004, he graduated from the Stryi Art College, and in 2010, from the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
Since 2006, Ihor Melnyk has been a member of the artistic association “Stryi-KO”, and since 2013, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
In 2020, he was awarded the Petro Obal Painting Prize.
Melnyk’s works are included in the collections of the Cherkasy Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art and the Mykola Babak Foundation. His works are also represented by Goldens Auction House in Kyiv.
The artist’s paintings are held in private collections in the United States, Greece, Germany, France, Japan, and Ukraine.
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This work is a memory of childhood — of a simple and almost forgotten feeling of freedom. On a sunny day, you run through a familiar landscape, and the world around you seems to come alive with movement.
The rays of sunlight touch everything around — the grass, the trees, the earth, the air — illuminating fragments of the landscape while leaving others in shadow. This play of light, the sensation of movement, and the child’s perception of space become the foundation of the composition.
The landscape does not depict a specific place. It exists as a memory — fragmented, luminous, and emotional, where sunlight, movement, and space merge into one feeling of childhood.
IHOR MELNYK
Ihor Melnyk is a Ukrainian artist working in the field of contemporary painting and abstract landscape. He was born in 1985 in Stryi, Lviv Region, Ukraine, where he currently lives and works.
In his artistic practice, Melnyk explores nature, space, memory, and the inner states of human experience. His paintings are not literal representations of reality, but rather emotional and visual reinterpretations of it. Through colour, texture, rhythm, and composition, the artist develops a distinctive visual language in which the landscape is transformed into an abstract image.
In 2004, he graduated from the Stryi Art College, and in 2010, from the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
Since 2006, Ihor Melnyk has been a member of the artistic association “Stryi-KO”, and since 2013, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
In 2020, he was awarded the Petro Obal Painting Prize.
Melnyk’s works are included in the collections of the Cherkasy Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art and the Mykola Babak Foundation. His works are also represented by Goldens Auction House in Kyiv.
The artist’s paintings are held in private collections in the United States, Greece, Germany, France, Japan, and Ukraine.
