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Pysanky For Ukraine
Oksana Bilous - Pysanky, Gifts & Linens from Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukrainian EggCessories is honoured to support Oksana Bilous, an award‑winning pysanky artist and master of Ukrainian folk art from Kyiv, Ukraine. In this collection you’ll find her pysanky‑inspired linens, wooden stands, magnets, keychains, embossing wax and more, shipped from Canada to customers across North America.
Because of Russia’s war on Ukraine, purchasing items from Ukrainian artists is one meaningful way to help keep their studios and workshops going. When you choose something from this collection, you are directly supporting Oksana’s work and helping preserve traditional Ukrainian pysankarstvo.
Thank you for considering a purchase from this collection. As long as you keep ordering, we will continue working with Oksana to bring her beautiful pieces across the Atlantic Ocean to us here in North America. Everything in Oksana’s collection makes a thoughtful holiday or special‑occasion gift for anyone who loves Ukrainian culture and pysanky.
About Oksana Bilous
Oksana Bilous practices not only traditional pysankarstvo (Ukrainian Easter egg writing), but also the techniques of etching, cutting, and her own combined methods on chicken, goose, duck, ostrich and other bird eggs.
She was born in 1965 in Kyiv in a family of doctors. After graduating from high school, she entered the Gorky Kyiv Pedagogical Institute (now the Mykhailo Drahomanov National Pedagogical University), where she earned a degree in secondary school geography and biology.
Oksana learned to write pysanky from Natalia Selivachova. In 1992–1993, she became the first head of the pysanka circle at the Central Palace for Children and Youth in Kyiv. Together with Zoya Stashuk, she created one of the first comprehensive collections of traditional folk pysanky from throughout Ukraine, which included more than 2,000 individual pysanky.
From 2005–2008, her collection of pysanky from ten different regions of Ukraine, reproduced from 19th‑century designs and titled “The Universe in the Palms of My Hands,” was exhibited in seven cities in Ukraine.
In 1995, together with Zoya Stashuk, she wrote and published a teaching manual entitled “The School of Pysankarstvo.” In 2012 she published an instructional book on practical techniques, “The Art of Pysankarstvo,” and an album on symbolism, “The Symbolic Language of Pysanky from the Stone Age to the Present.”
In 1994, Oksana Bilous was accepted into the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine, and in 1997 she was awarded the title “Honored Master of Folk Art of Ukraine.”
Oksana regularly participates in Easter fairs in Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main, Gifhorn (Germany), Tours (France), Lublin (Poland) and the international arts festival “Slavic Bazaar” in Vitebsk (Belarus), as well as folk art festivals in Estonia, Latvia, Bulgaria and Poland. From 2008–2015, she took part in numerous festivals and fairs in Ukraine and abroad as a master of pysankarstvo. In 2016, she held a series of master classes in Yokohama (Japan), and in 2022 she participated in an international arts festival on the Caribbean island of Martinique (France).
A large collection of Oksana’s pysanky is on permanent display at the Museum of the Pysanka in Kolomyia, Ivano‑Frankivsk oblast.
She is also the founder and head of the creative center “The Workshop of Oksana Bilous,” where she leads master classes for children and adults and creates decorative and applied art items including pysanky, woodblock‑printed fabrics and clothing, and prianyky (Ukrainian gingerbread cookies).
