Painting Shpytsi and Rebra Peaks, artist Nina Lytvyn

Artist: Nina Lytvyn 

Year of creation: 2025

Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm

Materials: oil on stretched canvas

Technique: Alla Prima

Original hand-painted artwork

"Shpytsi and Rebra Peaks" — is a majestic, panoramic, and transparent mountain air-filled landscape oil canvas possessing high aesthetic and collectible value. The horizontal 50x70 cm format, created in 2025, mesmerizes with the epic space of the Ukrainian Carpathians, the rhythmic interplay of high-mountain light, and the endless harmony of wild nature. 

Its author is professional artist Lytvyn Nina (born 1972), whose recognizable painterly handwriting, bold artistic technique, and refined sense of light and air have earned recognition among art collectors and admirers of modern art.

The plot of the painting immerses the viewer in the breathtaking atmosphere of the high-altitude Chornohora mountain range. In the foreground is the rugged yet poetic texture of a Carpathian meadow with dry grass and moss. At the center of the composition rises an expressive silhouette of a peak, its green slopes descending gently into the valleys. In the background, bluing mountain ranges rhythmically recede beyond the horizon, creating a grand sense of incredible depth, height, and vast space.

The palette of the artwork is built on an exquisite gradation of natural tones. Vibrant grassy-green, olive, and pistachio shades of sunlit slopes pair spectacularly with the warm golden-ochre and terracotta nuances of the foreground. Distant perspective is masterfully conveyed through a soft palette of sky-blue, ultramarine, lilac, and smoky-azure tones, perfectly capturing the pure mountain air.

The artist's authorial technique in the "alla prima" style with textured impasto bestows special emotionality and relief upon the canvas. Hand-painted in dynamic and confident strokes of the brush and palette knife, dense layers of paint physically build up the volumetric relief of mountains and dry grass, causing the surface of the canvas to vibrate and come alive depending on the lighting angle.

Stylistically, the canvas combines elements of modern impressionism, plein-air realism, and epic mountain landscape. This is a profound artistic reflection on the grandeur of the Carpathian Mountains, where monumental peaks become a symbol of freedom, unshakable peace, and spiritual elevation.

The classic horizontal 50x70 cm format makes the canvas an excellent style accent for a modern or classic interior. This original hand-painted piece by the master will become a refined visual centerpiece for a spacious living room, executive office, country residence, dining room, or hall styled in contemporary, loft, art nouveau, or Scandinavian hygge.