Maria Sulymenko was born into a family of artists in Kiev, Ukraine in 1981, where she began practicing + experimenting with mediums at a young age. Later studying fine arts in Germany where she now currently lives + works out of her home studio. Sulymenko’s heavily layered watercolour paintings on handmade paper hold audiences spellbound. Her paintings are set in very ominous, isolated, puzzling environments both in grand interiors and imaginary landscapes.