A personal exhibition of the works of Odesa artist, Honored Artist of Ukraine Nataliya Martyniuk "Graphic compositions" for the Artist's Day is presented as a part of the art project "In the artist's workshop", which aims to popularize the work of Ukrainian artists and includes holding personal exhibitions and publishing catalogs with interviews and reflections artists about art and life, reproductions of works that vividly reflect their creative pursuits.
    The exposition of the exhibition consists of more than twenty graphic works of Nataliya Martyniuk from the 1970s to 2010s, donated by the author to the funds of the O.O.Osmyorkin Art Memorial Museum in 2020. The presented graphic works attract with special sophistication, reflecting the real world, in which beauty, a range of feelings, and the flight of creative imagination reign.
    Nataliya Oleksandrivna Martyniuk was born on December 4, 1946 in Odessa. Honored Artist of Ukraine (2021). Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1982).
    She graduated from the Odesa Art School named after M.B. Grekov, now Higher Educational Communal Institution "M.B. Grekov Odesa Art College", painting department (1967) and Leningrad Higher Art and Industrial School named after V.I.Mukhina, now the St. Petersburg State Art and Industrial Academy named after A.L.Shtiglits, faculty of "interior and equipment" (1973).
    She began her career in 1973 as a teacher of special disciplines at the Odesa Art School named after M.B.Grekov. She worked as an artist in the graphic workshop of the Odesa Art and Production Combine of the Art Fund of the Ukrainian SSR (1982-1992). During her teaching career as a senior teacher of special disciplines at the Odesa Art School named after In 1993-2019, M.B. Grekov trained a pleiad of graduates who continued their studies in higher art educational institutions and became famous artists.
    She was a member of the bureau and secretary of the graphics section, a member of the board of the Odesa regional organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. He works creatively in drawing, watercolor and oil painting techniques.
    She started exhibition activities in 1975. Participant of city, regional, republican, all-Ukrainian, all-Union, international and foreign art exhibitions. She has numerous personal exhibitions. Her creative works, written in the original author's manner of drawing, are unique examples of modern Ukrainian graphic art and adorn the collections of the Directorate of Exhibitions of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (Kyiv), the Odessa Art Museum, the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum (Kropivnytskyi), private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
    The thematic range of creativity consists of the genres of traditional classical fine art - landscape, still life, portrait, story picture. Special respect is given to the performance material - graphite pencil. The creative character of the artist's nature reflects the rapid linear and stroke pattern of her graphic works, which are distinguished by the saturated emotional energy of strokes on large surfaces. The artist's large-scale style of easel graphics is characterized by a large format, which is a unique feature of the author's artistic handwriting.
    Professor, doctor of art history, head of the Department of Fine Arts of K.D.Ushinskyi National Pedagogical University Olha Tarasenko in her article "Neo-romanticism in the work of Natalia Martyniuk" notes: "Martyniuk's graphics are far from the three-dimensional plastic style of classicism. She uses the principles of impressionism and the avant-garde genetically related to it, where the space is as active as the object... The artist works with pencils of different softness. An important role is played by the eraser, which creates a "white stroke"... The laconicism of black and white graphic compositions by Martyniuk is comparable to the black and white keys of a piano, with the help of which a gifted musician is able to convey an elevated state of mind. Nataliya Martyniuk's compositions are free improvisations on the theme of the city, seen as a similarity of a growing transparent crystal... The tool is a pencil, eraser, paint. Means - line, tonal stain, color, composition. In the style, you can see a paradoxical combination of minimalism and baroque (or refined rococo)."