Artist with show at Mullingar Library says 'my art is a love song dedicated to Ireland'
‘Southscapes’ - at Mullingar Library till 13 June - is the 40th exhibition in Ireland by Tetiana Milshyna, who says “my art is a love song dedicated to Ireland”.
Cork-based, Tetiana is a member of VAI, Sample-Studios (Cork), Lavit Gallery (Cork), Cnoc Bui Art Centre (Union Hall, West Cork), and a resident of Studios of Sanctuary Residency Programme (Cork). Awarded Agility Award 2023 by the Arts Council of Ireland.
She has exhibited her works extensively, particularly in Munster. In Cork: in the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Sample-Studios (Cork), Triskel Art Centre (Cork), The Address Hotel (Cork), Lavit Gallery (Cork), Market Gallery (Cork), GOMA (Waterford), SWERVE Gallery (Skibbereen), Cnoc Bui Art Centre (Union Hall), The Grey Heron (Bandon). But also internationally: in Elysium Gallery (Swansea, Wales).
She has had several exhibitions in the libraries in Counties Cork and Clare including the new Kinsale library and Ballyvourney library in Gaeltacht area.
“I take part in art festivals such as K-FEST in Kerry and STAMP in Cork. I make workshops for communities of interest and take commissions. My works are held in private collections in Ukraine, Ireland, Spain, Germany, France and USA.”
Tetiana Milshyna, 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, that deeply defines Ireland.
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 based in Cork, I focus on the surrounding seascapes, rural countryside, and its natural, historical, and archaeological heritage. My practice includes both plein air and studio work, primarily using watercolour.”
CV
• Upcoming solo exhibition ‘Landscape Encounters’in Hideout Café, Cork City – 10 June - 25 July
• Upcoming solo exhibition in 6s & 7s Gallery supported by Creative Places Tipperary, Tipperary town, Co. Tipperary – Aug-Sept 2025
• Solo exhibition 'From War to West Cork' in SWERVE Gallery, Skibbereen, County Cork – 2023
• Solo exhibition of Cork city and county scenes in Dunleas Café, Cork City – 2023
• Pop up solo exhibition (along with Sample-Studio artists group exhibition 'Sailing the Rip Tide') in Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgerald Park, Cork City – 2022
Selected Group Exhibitions:
• Upcoming ‘Paint Waterford’ exhibition, Mount Congreve Gardens, County Waterford – summer 2025
• ‘All about Cork’ exhibition in the Market Gallery, Douglas, Cork City – 2025
• Annual Members Exhibition 2025, Lavit Gallery, Cork – 2025
• Group Exhibition ‘PULP: Works With Paper’ in Market Gallery, Douglas, Cork – 2025
• Group Winter Exhibition in ‘Be Framed’ picture framing and art gallery, Douglas, Cork – 2025
• Annual Sample-Studios Member Summer Exhibition, Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork – 2024
• Annual Members Exhibition 2024, Lavit Gallery, Cork – 2024
• Group exhibition of Elysium and Sample-Studio artists, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2024
• Annual Sample-Studios Member Summer Exhibition in Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork – 2023
• A group exhibition 'Art Enriches Life?' in The Narrow Space Gallery, Clonmel, County Tipperary –
2023
• A group exhibition 'Inception', West End Art Studios, Mallow, County Cork – 2023
• Group exhibition and a book launch Artist’s Eye on Kerry, Great Southern Hotel, Killarney – 2023
• 6th Annual Members Exhibition in GOMA Gallery of Modern Art , Waterford – 2023
Art Festivals:
• Art festival K-FEST, Killorglin, County Kerry – 31 May – 3 June 2024
• STAMP festival group exhibition, Triskel Art Centre, Cork city – 16 - 28 May 2024
• Culture Night 2023 in Cnoc Bui Art Centre, Union Hall, West Cork – 22 September 2023
• Art festival K-FEST, Killorglin, County Kerry – 2-5 June 2023
Workshops:
• Upcoming series of watercolour workshops for Ukrainian Community supported by Creative Places
Tipperary, Tipperary town, County Tipperary – July 2025
• Upcoming series of watercolour workshop supported by Rethink Ireland Resilient Cork Fund and Community Foundation of Ireland, Lord Mayor’s Pavillion, Sample-Studios, Cork City – August
2025
• Series of watercolour workshops ‘The sky, The Sea, The Land’ supported by Rethink Ireland
Resilient Cork Fund and Community Foundation of Ireland, Lord Mayor’s Pavillion, SampleStudios, Cork City – 2025
• Watercolour workshop ‘A Lighthouse with Limited Palette’ with Young Curators, ETB, Tramore Road, Cork – 2024
• Watercolour workshop ‘Beacon of Joy’ for the World Mental Health Day and after ‘Between Sea and Light’ project, Triskel Art Centre, Cork – 2024
Residencies:
• Upcoming Residency - Cill Rialaig, County Kerry – Nov 2025
• Residency in Triskel Sample Project Space, Triskel Art Centre, Cork City – Jan 2025
Some of my other achievements:
• I became a professional member of Visual Artists of Ireland (VAI) and The International Association of Art (IAA) – 2025
• Watercolour of Innishannon waterfall was chosen by Cork City Libraries to print as a banner and install by the footpath in Marina Park, Cork city, as a part of the project ‘Poetry in the Park’ supporting by Cork City Council – 2024
• My project “Between Sea and Light” was awarded Agility Award by Art Council of Ireland – 2023
• My watercolour of St Lukes Cross was published as a cover for Cork City Libraries Events magazine for May/June 2023.
• My works were included in the publication Artist’s Eye on Kerry. Book launch in Great Southern Hotel, Killarney, County Kerry – 2023
• Set of small graphic portraits of Nasrid dynasty female rulers was commissioned from me for a historical guided tour, Granada, Spain – 2022
• Set of small graphic portraits of Berber Ziri dynasty rulers for a historical guided tour, Granada, Spain – 2021
• Postage stamps for Ukrainian Post, Kyiv – 2017
Education:
• English C1 in spoken and written English at Griffith College, – 2022 Cork
• Short course of garden design, Boris Grinchenko University, – 2013 Kyiv
• 2008-2014 – Master in Fine Arts and Teaching of Fine Arts, Boris Grinchenko University, Kyiv.
Instagram: @m.t.i.art