Zaitsev Ihor - Ukrainian artist

Ihor Zaitsev – a Ukrainian painter, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 2017. 

Born on June 1, 1964, in the village of Berezove, Donetsk region. He lives and works in Dnipro. His main genres are - landscape, still life, and portrait. His professional development is associated with creative collaboration and studying under famous Ukrainian artists: People's Artist of Ukraine Petro Mahro, Yevhen Nehoda, and Fedir Pavlenko, as well as studying at the Summer School of the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 2012. 

Artist Ihor Zaitsev is a participant in numerous All-Ukrainian and international exhibitions and plein airs. In 2013, he became a III degree laureate of the international exhibition "Breath of Spring" / ART WEEK UKRAINA in Kyiv. In 2022-2025, he participated in the XXII-XXV International Repin Plein Airs. He is the author of personal exhibitions at the Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum, the Museum of Ukrainian Painting, the Dmytro Yavornytskyi House-Museum, and other exhibition spaces. 

In the artist's work, his own approach to plein air and easel painting is gradually being formed, based on the interaction of light, color, and form. From the direct observation of nature, Ihor Zaitsev moves to its emotional and coloristic transformation, striving to convey the visible motif, as well as - the inner sensation it evokes. The current stage of his creativity is associated with the formation of his own system of pictorial thinking, in which color and form become independent carriers of the emotional content of his artistic language.