Nadiya Kutsa, Прикрашені будинки / Decorated houses

images are screenprints from the video in the documentation

Dzhurynska Slobidka is a small village with about 300 inhabitants in western Ukraine. 

Recently, at the end of October 2024, a short film appeared on the Facebook page of the regional TV channel Ternopil 1 in which an inhabitant told how she had provided the outside of her house and the neighbors' house with decorations.

Nadiya Kutsa, the inhabitant, was 64 years old when she was visited and interviewed by the film crew. 

She told the reporter that she started decorating her house three years earlier, in 2021. She had not done any decorative or artistic activity during her life and so there is no doubt hat she is a non-professional.  

The decorated walls evoke a special atmosphere, especially because to a large extent the stones. partly painted in all kinds of colours. are depicted as if they were in reality the constructional elements of the walls. 

These decorative stones, which completely cover the walls of the house, form a defining. basic element of this art environment.

But there are also freestanding decorative elements to be seen, such as the owl and the frog depicted above and the small cylindrical structure in the second image from the top.

The large quantity of partly colourful stones that decorate the walls are often interspersed with trees and shrubs that are provided with a green canopy. 

This art environment as a whole makes a calm, controlled impression, as if an experienced artist has effortlessly made a creation.

The neighbours house

This is equally true of the decorations that Nadya Kutsa has applied to the walls of her neighbours' house, a project she started after finishing the beautification of her own home.

Here too we see painted stones alternating with trees with green foliage, all done in a more modest style.

Apart from the video with accompanying explanation on Facebook, and the similar publication in the magazine of the TV channel, there is no other source available about these two Ukrainian art environments.

Documentation

* Video by Ukrainian TV Ternopil 1,  on Facebook, October 23, 2024

thanks to Caroline Dahyot, who pointed me to the video about these creations

Nadiya Kutsa 

Decorated houses 

No address available 

Village of Dzhurynska Slobidka,  Chortkiv district, Ternopil region, Ukraine

can be seen from the street