Petro Lebedinets was born in Melitopol, Zaporizhia region, Ukraine, in 1956 and is a winner of numerous awards: Certificate of Honor as participant in the art festival Our Heritage (Metropolitan Museum and National Arts Club, New York); honorary prize Artist of the Year at the International Art Festival in Kyiv in 1997; honorary prize as winner of the creative competition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the UN in Ukraine in 1996 and honorary prize of the jury of the international exhibition Contemporary Art in Nice, 1996.
He was ranked number four of the top hundred contemporary artists in Ukraine by the national project 100
Artists: Modern and Contemporary Ukrainian Art since Independence. He has exhibited in numerous locations and his works are found in private collections in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, USA, France, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Holland, Spain and Italy, besides others.
He graduated from Kyiv State Art Institute, where, like others, he began his career by studying the basics of academic painting. However, feeling a need for change, he began to fill his realistic paintings with decorative flowers and symbolic forms.
Lebedinets takes colour and texture to new dimensions by weaving a tapestry of hues, wired together with the consistency of his purposeful positivity. The Modernistic avant-garde works, done with wide and deep strokes of colour, echo the Early Renaissance style with humanistic and naturalistic details. They remind one of the Gardens of Versailles or the Keukenhof flower gardens in the Netherlands.
The paintings of Lebedinets are harmonious and joyful; there are no breaks in them, no conflict or loss. They are executed with a combination of grace and power. It can be said that such paintings are characterized by a certain universal comprehension of space. The artist manages to create the most luxurious colour harmonies, to represent the dazzling brightness of a world bathed in sunlight. For Petro Lebedinets, abstract art should convey positivity. "I strongly believe that only positive emotions should be infused in art," he says. Each composition is as boundless as the Atlantic Ocean. Each work has its own Gulf Stream directing your gaze, leading it to wherever the imagination will go, among the melting pools of emeralds and blues.
