Lyudmila Sikhosana

Having grown up in the Zaporisha Region, Tokmak, Ukraine, Lyudmila Sikhosana currently lives in Fen Ditton, Cambridge. Graduating in Art & Technical Drawing from Rostov-on-Don State Pedagogical University, she has gone on to practice and teach art in Ukraine, Russia, and the United Kingdom. She predominately works in the figurative and impressionistic style, mainly in oils on canvas board, inspired by the local landscape and the diverse people of Cambridge and Cambridgeshire.

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Sikhosana paints wherever and whenever she can from as close to home as her back garden to her favourite escapes across the Cambridgeshire countryside, working en plein air, where she captures the unexpected colours, the dramatic light and changing of seasons in a way that reflects the freshness, unexpected qualities and spontaneity of nature. Her work has been selected for exhibition at the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy and the Mall Galleries in London as well as Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. Her work is held in private collections in Cambridge and internationally.

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“When I paint, I feel elated, in unison with the people and the space around me – I disappear into the landscape and the subject matter in front of me’, she explains. ‘For me creating a painting is not about making a faithful reproduction but rather about beautiful visual experience that is based in some fundamental truth in nature. It might reflect what is seen but I play with the paint on the canvas until something remarkable happens, which has its own internal truth.”