We recently connected with Viktoriya D’Art and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Viktoriya thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Are you happy as a creative professional? Do you sometimes wonder what it would be like to work for someone else?

I have always been creative, but I have not always called myself an artist. To believe in myself, I changed more than one profession. As a child, my parents gave me the right to choose what to do. And society for some reason suggested that the artist is not serious. And drawing became my hobby while I worked as a cook, bartender, designer in a hardware store…and later I rarely returned to the hobby. Until I leaned against the ceiling while working as a cook, realized that there was no future there, and started thinking about what to do. I planned to return to photography, but on vacation the camera flew off the motorcycle and I was left without expensive equipment. We need to look for another option. And while I was thinking about what to do to quit my job, I bought a canvas and paints and painted the same picture that started it all. I posted it online and got my first orders, which I didn’t even expect. From that time I realized that what I had been looking for for so long was right under my nose. That’s how I found my purpose. And the path of its development was and is now rather thorny.

Viktoriya , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Today I am an artist. In my creativity, I develop three directions. The main thing is wall painting, and paintings and clothes painting are what I also really like and are ordered from me periodically. It is thanks to the latest referrals that I can demonstrate my skills and taste at exhibitions. Since painted walls are usually in private houses, I can only show the result of the work in a photo. I have been in this profession for more than 10 years, but unfortunately, the enemy Russia came to my house one day, and with the first explosions I realized that everything I had been working towards for years was instantly destroyed. Who needs pictures or painted walls if every day your house can turn into ruins. Now my creativity is on pause, I haven’t left the country, all my customers are here too and we are waiting for our victory and then we will rebuild and paint everything.

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

I have always been creative, but I have not always called myself an artist. To believe in myself, I changed more than one profession. As a child, my parents gave me the right to choose what to do. And society for some reason suggested that the artist is not serious. And drawing became my hobby while I worked as a cook, bartender, designer in a hardware store…and later I rarely returned to the hobby. Until I leaned against the ceiling while working as a cook, realized that there was no future there, and started thinking about what to do. I planned to return to photography, but on vacation the camera flew off the motorcycle and I was left without expensive equipment. We need to look for another option. And while I was thinking about what to do to quit my job, I bought a canvas and paints and painted the same picture that started it all. I posted it online and got my first orders, which I didn’t even expect. From that time I realized that what I had been looking for for so long was right under my nose. That’s how I found my purpose. And the path of its development was and is now rather thorny.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

When the war started, and the Russians were already very close to our city, the man decided to take us to a safer place. The most difficult thing for me was to correctly collect the most necessary things. Because my workshop is my life…paintings, paints, all tools. And what if I never come back. And what should I take so that I can work and provide for my family, suddenly in another city or even country. All I took with me was a computer, an airbrush and a graphic tablet. Just in case, I’ll have something to sell, I thought. But, unfortunately, since then, my creativity has been on hiatus. I have a creative job as an artist in a stained-glass workshop, but I will probably return to my work after there will be a peaceful sky in our Ukraine and the rockets will stop flying

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