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Leila’s, quinces

olha pryymak — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:16:24 +0000

Popped in to get our favorite dried mango to find out that the magnificent quince fruit is now in season and offered at Leila’s. And it was just yesterday that I went specifically to get those at the Borough market. Will be happy to come back here and restock on those next week. My grandma used to make amazing jam with those, she had a quince tree producing smallish covered with fuzz quince fruit, but the jam from it turned out royally good.

2010, oil on panel, 15 x 15 cm

Travelling…

olha pryymak — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:53:48 +0000

I’ve been travelling a lot, therefore no new oils, just the little sketches with watercolor pencil and ink pen. Next time will update here with some Paris drawings. Cheers,

Fresh fruit from the village

olha pryymak — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:39:22 +0000

oil on canvas board; 18×24 cm, 2008, private collection

This lady along with many others commute up to Kyiv to sell what her garden produced during the summer for some extra cash. Usually this produce is the freshest and best quality in the market, but one needs to spend more time finding the right “babushka” with the necessary stuff. The kiosks that I’ve been dwelling on recently are an easier target to find (and paint, xo).

Great news, beautiful MindtheGap and LittleMissMoi are taking in their hands the organization of my exhibit at the end of March! Updates are coming soon.

Another interesting artist Alika Cooper is putting out figurative paintings of mobile homes and American devoshkas.

Did I talk enough here about Yuri Solomko? He represented Ukraine at Venice biennale and is most famous for his paintings on maps. Yet have to go see what he came up with for the decoration of the new Hyatt hotel in Kyiv. I hear he put out by himself hundreds of paintings to decorate each and every room in the hotel.