Nataliia Burmaka

NATALIIA BURMAKA graduated from the National Studio of Fine Arts of Boris Danchenko (Sumy, Ukraine) in 1999 and worked as an artist-decorator from 1999 to 2005. Later, she earned a master’s degree in philology and had a postgraduate course in accounting. Although she worked as an accountant, she didn’t stop drawing and painting. Together with her husband she made illustrations for books and created  murals (private commissions). In 2022, she moved to Finland to escape the war in Ukraine. Her works were shown in exhibitions in Finland and were featured in magazines such as Welter, Phoebe,Quibble.lit, Rednoisecollective, Flare, Oakland Review, etc.

Besides being a painter, Nataliia is also a writer and co-organizer of the Ukrainian short story contest “Open World”.