Vinnik-Shtep Oleg

VINNIK Oleg (creative pseudonym - Vinnik-Step) - was born in Poltava in 1969. A multifaceted Ukrainian artist who works in different directions of fine arts, combines them and creates paintings at the intersection of different techniques and styles. 

As a child, the future artist was encouraged to be creative by his grandfather. He showed the kid how to draw a portrait out of an ordinary number "2". It's simple, says Oleg Vinnik-Step: the figure should only draw hair and lips. Oleg was interested in such creativity and the future artist started his creative way already from the age of 5.

Vinnik-Step received his academic education in the Kharkov State Art College (1989), after that he studied at the Kharkov Art-Industrial Institute (easel painting). Participant of all-Ukrainian and international exhibitions. Vinnik-Step Oleg in addition to creating paintings pays attention to teaching students, considering it his mission - to share his vision of the world and art, share knowledge, experience and instill future artists creative thinking.

Personal exhibitions held in the Kharkov Art Museum, in private galleries in Kharkov, Kiev and Odessa. Vinnik Oleg's paintings are in the collections of the Kharkov Art Museum, Svyatogorsk Historical Museum, in private collections in Ukraine and abroad.