Biography Kateryna Bilokur is a favous self-taught painter and an highly original Ukrainian folk artist. Kateryna Bilokur`s life was not easy. She was born December 7, 1900, in the village of Bogdanivka, Kyiv region, into the family of a poor peasant. She had no possibility to study at school.
Biography The first works of Bilokur (1920s — early 30s) were amateurish. They were the portraits of her relations and villagers executed with charcoal and self-made vegetable paints. The second half of the 1930s was an important period in her creativity. Then she took to drawing still-lifes. Bilokur’s paintings were first displayed at the Poltava Regional Exhibition in 1940 and then at a national exhibition in Kyiv.
In the 1950s Bilokur made her first attempts in water-color painting. During the last years of her life, which were dimmed by serious illness, Kateryna Bilokur created a number of notable pictures. Kateryna Bilokur died June 9, 1961. Her creativity has won her general recognition. In her native village a monument was erected in her honor. At all times of the year its pedestal is covered with flowers which she so admired. Biography