Tetiana Milshyna

Watercolor painting of a harbor scene with colorful houses, boats, and trees, featuring a blue water body in the foreground and a sky with soft clouds in the background.

Watercolor painting of a harbor scene with colorful houses, boats, and trees, featuring a blue water body in the foreground and a sky with soft clouds in the background.

Watercolor painting of a bridge over a river with trees on the riverbanks and cloudy sky in the background.

Watercolor painting of a bridge over a river with trees on the riverbanks and cloudy sky in the background.

Watercolor painting of a city street with buildings, trees, and people, under a cloudy sky, with warm colors and loose brushstrokes.

Watercolor painting of a city street with buildings, trees, and people, under a cloudy sky, with warm colors and loose brushstrokes.

Watercolor painting of an old two-story house with large windows, a green lawn, and surrounding trees under a cloudy sky.

Watercolor painting of an old two-story house with large windows, a green lawn, and surrounding trees under a cloudy sky.

A snowy winter scene of a small town with snow-covered rooftops and a tall church steeple, viewed from across a body of water with icy edges and leafless trees in the foreground. The sky is cloudy with hints of color.

A snowy winter scene of a small town with snow-covered rooftops and a tall church steeple, viewed from across a body of water with icy edges and leafless trees in the foreground. The sky is cloudy with hints of color.

A watercolor painting of a countryside scene with a house, trees, and mountains in the background, with green grass in the foreground.

A watercolor painting of a countryside scene with a house, trees, and mountains in the background, with green grass in the foreground.

artist statement

My art is a love song dedicated to Ireland.

Irish landscape provides an endless source of inspiration for me. I am continually fascinated with its special landforms and richness of its heritage. It resonates with something deep within me and feels like home to my soul. Painting is my way of engaging with this feeling of belonging, with the nature and genius loci, the spirit of place.

At the heart of my work there is a desire to capture the atmosphere of a place in a specific moment of time: its light, its weather, its colours. These elements come together to reveal the unique aura of a landscape and convey the experience of being at that place at that moment.

As a landscape artist, I focus on the surrounding seascapes, urban scenes, rural countryside, and its natural, historical, and archaeological heritage. My practice includes both plein air and studio work, primarily using watercolour.

I am a Cork-based professional visual artist focused on the contemporary watercolour and acrylic landscape painting. I am a member of VAI, Sample-Studios (Cork), Lavit Gallery (Cork), Cnoc Bui Art Centre (Union Hall, West Cork). A participant of Studios of Sanctuary Residency Programme (Cork) - award-winning training and mentorship programme for artists from migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking backgrounds.

Awarded Agility Award 2023 by the Arts Council of Ireland.

I was born in Ukraine, where I had been living and working prior to the outbreak of war in 2022. Now living in Cork, I am developing my art practice in Ireland.