In The Garden of My Tenderness, Oksana Omelchuk blurs the boundaries between photography and painting, crafting images where reality meets imagination. Using digital tools in place of brushes, she transforms everyday subjects into emotional landscapes layered with texture, memory, and feeling.

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Her process is deeply intuitive — a visual dialogue that captures the unseen poetry of the ordinary. By blending hand-drawn and photographic elements, Omelchuk redefines perception, inviting viewers into a world where vulnerability and beauty intertwine. The Garden of My Tenderness becomes both sanctuary and exploration — a contemplative space where emotion takes form and tenderness becomes a way of seeing.

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Oksana Omelchuk: Art has been an integral part of my life for as long as I can remember. I began painting in early childhood and later discovered photography. Today, I combine both passions to create work at the intersection of fine art and photography. I am drawn to the space where reality dissolves into imagination. Instead of traditional brushes, I use digital tools to reinterpret the world I capture through my camera, painting it with the colours of my inner states.

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I use digital tools to reinterpret the world I capture through my camera, painting it with the colours of my inner states.

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My creative process is intuitive and emotional. I often start with a photograph, layering it with digital textures, hand-drawn elements, or scanned materials to evoke a feeling rather than depict a scene. Through my work, I explore themes of memory, transformation, and perception. I focus on everyday subjects and infuse them with new meaning by shifting their context — seeking poetry in the overlooked and emotion in structure and form. For me, art is a dialogue with the world — a way to express what cannot be said in words, to connect beyond logic. It is a space where vulnerability, beauty, and mystery coexist.

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About

Oksana Omelchuk is a visual artist and fine-art and architectural photographer based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is a multiple award-winner in international photography competitions. Her art education includes the Kyiv School of Photography (Ukraine) and Form Photo Academy (Paris, France). A lifelong love of fine art, along with six years of study at art school, helps Oksana combine photography and art to create works that blur the line between reality and fantasy. Oksana’s photographs have been featured in VOGUE Italia, Artdoc Photography Magazine, FotoNostrum Magazine, and the book 100 Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers, published by Form Paris in France. Her work has been exhibited in Ukraine, Spain, and France, and is held in private collections in Ukraine, France, and the United States.

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www.oksanaomelchuk.com