Born in 1985 in the ancient and ever-poetic city of Lviv, Ukraine, Korol Yuliya belongs to that rare lineage of artists whose creative gaze is both interior and infinite — a gaze that turns matter into metaphor and light into revelation. Her journey through art began in childhood at the O. Novakivsky Children’s Art School, continued through the Lviv Professional Artistic Lyceum, where she specialized in stained glass, and later deepened at the Ukrainian Academy of Typography, where she mastered the dialogue between design, symbolism, and the visual spirit of the written word.
Her work bears the delicate discipline of a craftsperson and the unbound intuition of a dreamer. Each image she creates — whether on glass, canvas, or paper — arises from a conversation between the seen and the unseen. The transparency of glass, in particular, became her lifelong metaphor: a surface that both reveals and conceals, that invites light to dwell within form and yet refuses to be wholly possessed by it.
Her artistic path led her beyond her native Ukraine, to Athens, where she studied hagiography at the Archelaos Cultural Center in Kallithea — a city where the divine and the mortal have long shared their boundaries. There, in the quiet precision of sacred imagery, she found echoes of the eternal that dwell within the human face and gesture. The Byzantine influence, subtly woven into her surrealist compositions, merges with the mysticism of her homeland — a union of northern melancholy and Mediterranean radiance.
Her professional engagements reflect the breadth of her creative life: as cartoonist for the newspaper Reporter in Ivano-Frankivsk; as stained-glass artist at the O. Kratkovsky Art Glass Studio in Lviv; as glass painter at the Chobitko Creative Workshop; and as portraitist with Lamus Art in Lithuania. She has also illustrated literary works in Athens, working under the editorial direction of O. Nikolska, allowing her visual sensitivity to flow naturally into the realm of language.
Her works have been displayed in exhibitions at the Embassy of Ukraine in Athens and in multiple Byzantine art exhibitions organized by the Municipality of Kallithea, where her pieces stood as luminous meditations on transcendence. Every artwork she produces — whether sacred or surreal — carries a quiet pulse, a rhythm of water and light that moves through the glass as through the soul.
In her current role as an art educator at the Genios School of Athens, Yuliya shares her personal method of teaching — one that nurtures imagination as an act of inner listening, blending discipline with play, and technique with wonder. Her students, both children and adults, learn to paint not only with color, but with consciousness.
At the heart of Yuliya’s art lies Surrealism, not as an escape from reality, but as a way to uncover its deeper dimensions. Her surreal landscapes are mirrors of the psyche — dreamlike terrains where angels converse with shadows, where memory becomes visible, and where the human spirit remembers its first language: light.
To stand before her work is to enter a state of stillness, as though one were gazing into the silent clarity of water. The forms she paints do not merely represent the world; they reimagine it — dissolving its boundaries, refracting its light, and whispering its truths through transparency.
In the end, the art of Korol Yuliya is not a mere reflection of what is seen but a transfiguration of what is felt — a spiritual architecture of color, glass, and imagination, where water, dream, and soul flow as one continuum of light.