Edward Hopper built his paintings around light. Filled with quiet and solitude, his paintings are often warmed by the sun: "I like long shadows and early and late sunlight.
With thousands of strokes from cat-hair brushes, Marfa Tymchenko, Olena Skytsiuk, and Olena Kulyk are drawing worldwide attention to Petrykivka painting, an exuberant form of Ukrainian folk art.