Gold and heaven

About the artist

Franchuk Valery Aleksandrovich was born on September 10, 1950 in the village of Zelena, Krasilovsky district, Khmelnitsky region, Ukraine.
Artist (graphic painter). Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1990. Franchuk graduated from KGHI (now the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture) in 1986. Faculty of Graphics, easel graphics workshop.
In 1986-1989 he worked in the graphic workshop of the Kyiv plant of monumental decorative art. Since 1990 at creative work.
Since 1983, it has been active in exhibition activities both on the territory of Ukraine and far beyond its borders, which contributes to the integration of Ukrainian art into the world cultural community. Valery Franchuk’s civic and patriotic act worthy of imitation is his decision to donate to the state (the museum-memorial of the “Holodomor in Ukraine”) 72 works from the series “Swinging Bells of Memory,” on which the author has been working for the last 17 years. The artist’s creative heritage over 27 years consists of more than 3,000 works of painting and more than 700 graphic sheets. He has 104 group, republican and international art exhibitions and 128 personal exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. The works are stored in domestic museums, public organizations and cultural centers in Ukraine and around the world.
246 publications have been written about the artist’s work in newspapers and magazines in Ukraine and around the world.