Ira Volkova

Ira Volkova (Kyiv, 1977) is a Ukrainian artist based in Ukraine. She studied at the Kharkiv Art College and later at the Kyiv National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, where she developed the foundations of her professional practice.
Volkova’s work is centered on large-scale floral paintings that establish a refined dialogue with light, nature, and time. Flowers—often drawn from her own garden—are observed and rendered with meticulous precision, becoming the primary subject of a sustained investigation into perception and scale.
By enlarging delicate blooms onto expansive canvases, the artist shifts the viewer’s focus, granting fragile and often overlooked forms a heightened presence. Light plays a crucial role in her compositions: reflections, shadows, and subtle variations in luminosity structure the pictorial space and animate the surface.
Her paintings can be read as intimate landscapes of petals, where nature is not idealized but carefully studied. The large format functions as a magnifying lens, inviting close observation and a slowed, contemplative gaze—an experience that encourages viewers to rediscover the complexity and quiet intensity of the natural world.