Ivan Marchuk

“When I was a student could spend hours walking on this beautiful land in search of beauty. Now I can be anywhere – I find beauty in everything.” - says Ivan. 

Ivan Marchuk was born into a family of weavers. To help the family make ends meet, Marchuk often helped his father with work.  He began to paint when he was a child. In spite of a lack of art materials, Marchuk managed to make art with the natural pigment of flowers, blades of grass, and fruit. After graduating from a seven-year school, he entered the Ivan Trush Lviv School of Applied Arts in the department of decorative painting, where he studied from 1951 to 1956. While his parents had wanted him to study to become a surgeon or biologist, they dared not stand in the way of his obvious talent and dreams.