Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
1.02- 19.02: Gallery Behraki
Korinthos, Krokida 1, Greece
In February, Greece will host a solo art exhibition by the poet and artist from the United Kingdom, Oksana Zhukova (Sky).
In the most known gallery of art
Behraki Gallery in Korinthos
Greece.
Behraki Gallery has more than 40 years tradition in promoting artists and painters.
A new cooperation with
EVA Petropoulou Lianou, founder of project “art:Poetry and painting Unites people” create bridges between Greece and abroad and has a very important goal to present the work of artists from different countries in Greece.
Our first solo Art exhibition dedicated to a very important artist :
Oksana Zhukova Sky is coming in February in Greece and she will present more than 15 paintings.
The event will be taken place in the most important gallery of art
Behraki Gallery in Korinthos and poets will recite the poems of Oksana Zhukova Sky during the exhibition.
This year, Oksana celebrated the anniversary of her project *Poetic Illustrations*. For fifteen years, she has been writing poems to accompany her own paintings as well as the works of artists from different countries around the world. In this year alone, she has held seven solo exhibitions in England and Spain. She fell in love with Greece and its people while carrying out her cultural diplomacy project *ArtMedia Tour: We Are Together*, and now she is delighted to present her paintings and poetry to the Greek audience.
Oksana Zhukova (Sky)** is a poet, writer, and visual artist. She was born in the south of Ukraine and currently lives in London (United Kingdom). She is an Academician of the International Academy for the Development of Literature and Art, a member of the Advisory Council of the Eurasian Creative Guild (London), and a representative of the North American Writers’ Union. She writes poetry and prose in three languages—Ukrainian, Russian, and English. Selected works have been translated into 17 languages worldwide.
She studied directing and television journalism at the Ukrainian Institute of Television, Radio Broadcasting, and Press in Kyiv and graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Tavrida National University. She also completed courses in fine art at the University of the Arts London and studied art and dance therapy at Roehampton University (London).
For many years, Oksana worked on Ukrainian television as a correspondent and editor, later becoming the author and host of a television programme dedicated to art and culture. She also collaborated with leading Ukrainian newspapers and magazines and served as editor of the online publication *Gallery of Stars*.
For over ten years, Oksana has been organising artistic and cultural projects. She is the founder of the international creative public diplomacy project *ArtMedia Tour: We Are Together* and the multilingual magazine *ArtMedia. Painting with Words*.
In 2025, she celebrated the anniversary of her author’s project *Poetic Illustrations*. For fifteen years, Oksana has been writing poems to accompany her own paintings as well as works by contemporary artists from different countries. In this year alone, seven of her solo exhibitions of poetic illustrations were held in libraries, cultural centres, museums, and galleries across the United Kingdom and Spain.
A passionate traveller, she considers herself a citizen of the world and combines travel with creativity, reflecting her experiences in literary and visual works. She is a laureate and finalist of numerous international literary and art competitions in Belgium, Australia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and Kazakhstan. She was also invited to serve as a jury member at an international film festival following her victory at the ECG Film Festival in London in the Documentary Film category.
In painting, Oksana favours surrealism, impressionism, and abstraction. All her works are deeply symbolic and belong to the collection *A Prayer for a Peaceful Sky*. Each piece contains the image of a dove—a symbol of peace—sometimes depicted with just two brushstrokes. The pseudonym Oksana Sky was chosen deliberately: she paints the sky and everything connected with flight on the wings of inspiration. Her characters may be real, fairy-tale, or fantastical.
The central theme of her work is faith in a bright future, in peace and love on Earth and in the Universe. The dream of a peaceful, beautiful planet is reflected in her paintings and poems. In her art, light triumphs over darkness, and the Universe offers harmony—hence the frequent depiction of starry skies. She covers dark backgrounds with bright, radiant colours; in her works, good always prevails over evil, and light and joy overcome darkness. The sky brings this light to people who generously share their warmth—like “flowers of peace and kindness” in her painting series *Flowers from the Sky*.
Oksana often uses images of galactic shell-flowers. The spiral of a shell is the Fibonacci form—a symbol of the Cosmos, harmony, light, eternity, and infinity. The spiral shape embodies the structure of the world, where the beginning of life unfolds from the centre of space-time. On Earth, the energy of harmony, peace, and goodness is carried by people with open hearts and radiant souls.
Oksana’s works have been exhibited in museums, galleries, and cultural centres in the United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, and Ukraine. She became a laureate of the art competition of the *Garden of Arts* association in Lithuania and presented her paintings at the Parliament of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Embassy in the United Kingdom. Hervoshire Press, together with the Creative Guild, included her works in an international catalogue presented in ten leading museums and galleries in London. Following participation in a number of major international exhibitions, her paintings were noted by art critics and published in the London catalogues *Contemporary* and *Vogue*.
Artist and poet Oksana Zhukova signs her works as **Oksana & Sky**—and this is more than a pseudonym; it is a concept. She transforms the word *“and”* into a small bird hidden in every painting. It is a symbol of connection: between the artist and the Sky, between humanity and harmony, between eternity and infinity.
Many years ago, she set an unusual record and seemed to dissolve into the Sky. It was then that her creative pseudonym was born.
**Oksana & Sky** works in the style of *subjective symbolism*.
She defines her authorial genre as **“fairytale reality”**—a world where the ordinary blossoms into symbols, where the sky carries secret messages, and where every flower spreads the wings of a fairytale. Her paintings and texts transform reality into metaphor—and metaphor into a living part of the world—inviting the viewer and reader into a space where wonder is as natural as breathing. Through real images and symbols, she creates her own fairytale of life.
In every work, she either conceals or clearly marks a dove—the symbol of peace. All her paintings are united in the collection *A Prayer for a Peaceful Sky*.
Currently, Oksana continues working on several painting series: *Flowers from the Sky*, *In the Vortex of Time and Space*, *Through the Lens of the Universe*, *I Know How to Fly*, and *How I Learned to Fly Again*—each continuing her dialogue with the Sky.
Awards and Professional Recognition
In **2016**, Oksana Zhukova (Sky) was awarded the *Generals of Peace for Peace* diploma for her contribution to promoting the ideas of peace, humanism, and intercultural dialogue through cultural and creative activity. The award was presented during **Eurasian Creative Week** at **Chulalongkorn University** (Bangkok, Thailand).
In **2020**, she became the winner of the **ECG Film Festival**, held in partnership with the **Romford Film Festival (London)**, in the category **Best Documentary Film**.
In **2021**, Oksana won the **Open Eurasia Literary Festival and Book Forum** in London. In the same year, she was also awarded an **Honorary Diploma from the Academy for the Development of Literature and Art**, presented by the **North American Writers’ Union**, for her contribution to contemporary literature, art, and intercultural cooperation.
In **2024**, she received the **Jonathan Fryer Memorial Medal**, established by the **Eurasian Creative Guild (London)**, for outstanding achievements in promoting culture and the arts and for strengthening the values of humanism and cultural dialogue.
In **2025**, Oksana received an award **for personal achievements in education and creativity, as well as for the consistent promotion of the idea of peace through art that unites people of different cultures and countries**, presented with the support of the **Mayor of Kingston upon Thames (London)** and the **Rotary Club**. In the same year, she was also honoured with a **Diploma from a Member of the UK Parliament** for participation in the **Exhibition of Eastern European Artists in London** and for her contribution to international cultural dialogue.
Oksana Zhukova Sky
Painter
Poet
