Tatyana Binovskaya- artist

When I travel, I really enjoy visiting bazaars in different countries and cities. Probably because I really, really love our Odessa Privoz. I really liked the market in Mumbai, India, the market named after Queen Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. I heard a lot about the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul and this time I was lucky enough to walk through it. It was very exciting! Everything was very much like an oriental fairy tale. The amount of various spices, silk clothes, lamps, all this played and shimmered in the rays of the sun, and the cheerful cries of merchants saturate the spicy air of the city with unprecedented sensations. I would walk around this market every day. The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over 4,000 shops, attracting between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily. In 2014, it was ranked as the number one most-visited tourist attraction in the world with 91,250,000 visitors per year. The Grand B...

My trip to Cappadocia. The next stop is Türkiye. Istanbul. How nice it is to travel and create an idea about the country, city or just a monument that you meet on your way. It's good to be able to compare. My trip to Turkey was very informative and I want to note, of course, from the first and, perhaps, a subjective glance - I liked it! It is felt in everything that the country's economy is developing, the cities are well-groomed, and construction is going on everywhere! Congratulations to the citizens of Turkey! Istanbul is an ancient city with a rich history. City legends. Istanbul is known as the City of Seven Hills. But this is not a geographically correct definition. The hills of the ancient peninsula were originally described by the Byzantines, who drew inspiration from the seven hills of Rome. So in fact Rome, not Istanbul, was founded on seven hills. When Constantine the Great transferred the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Istanbul, he adapted the tale of the ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1NsbDkq-Tw What could be more beautiful for an artist who works every day, even while in a foreign country that was not chosen? This is of course a small short message from their gallery – Your Artwork was sold! My “Sunflowers” were created during the first days of the forced flight from Ukraine in February 2022. We received invaluable help from Cypriot friends Silvia and Kostya. We went to supermarkets with caution – simple prices in Euro seemed huge to us … We were afraid to buy groceries, we did not understand how much we would have. We arrived in some tracksuits and could not even wash them, as there was nothing to change into. Cypriot volunteers organized for us, the settlers, the opportunity to get clothes there. It was there that we met Andria and I told her that I needed an easel. And she found it for me! It was during these days that my daughter Sylvia, in spite of everything, took me to buy canvases and paints, and I began to pour out my horro...

Saturday. I decided to change the Saturday column for a while and instead of publishing memories about our galleries, I will tell you about Cyprus, a wonderful island that gave my family and me shelter during temporary immigration from Ukraine. I never dreamed of visiting here – it was not part of my plans. But, as they say-a dream-be very careful. I talked a lot about the fact that I don’t like to be just a tourist, that in order to learn better about the place where you end up, you need to live there. Otherwise, it’s like a movie in an unfamiliar foreign language – you see the picture, but you don’t understand anything that’s happening there. And also, for some reason, I dreamed about Italy, not about cities, but about villages where people grow grapes and make wine. I was very interested in the life of an ordinary village – and now, as you understand, my dreams have come true almost to the fullest extent, the only correction is not Italy, but Cyprus! 10 unusual facts about life in C...

http://binovskaya.com/art/proudunbowed-80x100cm-available-at-binovska-gallery-cyprus/ On February 24 last year, when the war began, it seemed to everyone that it would end immediately. Radu and I took our family out and ended up in Cyprus. I keep thinking about what would have happened to me if we had stayed in Odesa. I couldn’t get used to sirens and deafening explosions, that’s for sure. I couldn’t create so many pictures.   I am fighting with all available means for our Victory, at my age, I would not have done any good by staying in Ukraine. Here I feel like a float in the sea, only thanks to my daughters, my friends on FB, and my daily posts in numerous groups, I work on new paintings every day, and I rejoice and spit at the same time when I can do something such that will show the abomination of these orcs.   I live and really, really, I want to live to see the end of the war, but not by way of any concessions, no, we must win in spite of all enemies. П’ятниця новини Лім...