About the Artist

Hi, I’m Olga Vysochynska, a self-taught artist from Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. I’ve loved drawing for as long as I can remember, and my childhood sketchbooks are still some of my favourite things. I never went to art school. Instead, about five years ago, I started watching great watercolour painters create masterpieces from a few drops of pigment and water, and I couldn’t resist trying it myself.

Watercolour: painting what is in front of me

Watercolour is my everyday language. I usually paint at A4 size or smaller, and I always carry a small sketchbook with me. When I travelled to London, I stopped wherever something caught my eye and painted exactly what I saw. This kind of plein-air sketching is how I practise. I love misty mountain landscapes, lavender fields, flowers, birds and butterflies: anything light and alive. Watching the paint spread, blend and follow my brush gives me a joy that is hard to describe.

Oil: bigger canvases, slower stories

For larger pieces I paint in oil. They take longer and ask for different subjects: abstraction, floral abstracts and nature.

Where AI comes in

By day I work as a manager at a tech company, so painting is the thing I make time for in the evenings and at weekends. There are far more ideas in my head than hours in my week. That is why some of the prints in this shop are created with AI tools, in my style and under my direction.

I never hand the idea over to the machine. I write detailed prompts, show it my own work and push it again and again until the result looks like something I would paint. My rule is simple: I only create with AI what I could paint by hand. If it were five of me, I wouldn’t need it. Every product page tells you whether a print comes from an original painting or is a digital, AI-assisted piece.

What’s next

My dream is to turn this hobby into my life’s work. When that happens, expect many more prints of my original paintings, and maybe even a few originals, if I can bear to part with them. They are my treasures.

Every print is made to order with archival pigment inks on heavyweight matte paper or canvas, and produced close to you in the US or Europe.