Before We Grew Up

Viktoriia Melnik is a figurative painter whose work explores childhood, memory, and the quiet significance of everyday moments. Working primarily in oil, she creates narrative paintings that focus on gesture, atmosphere, and the relationship between figures and their surroundings. Her work has been exhibited in juried exhibitions in the United States and internationally, and has received recognition from Light Space & Time and TERAVARNA. She is a member of Oil Painters of America and the National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society, and her work has been featured in Create! Magazine and Visual Art Journal.