The National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art houses a collection of unique works by the People’s Artist of Ukraine Kateryna Bilokur (1900–1961), created in 1935–1960. These are 37 canvases, watercolors and pencil drawings.
The future artist was born in the village of Bohdanivka, Kyiv region. (former Pyryatinsky district, Poltava province) on the holiday of Catherine – December 7, 1900. A peasant woman, self-taught, whose life and creative path is an exceptional phenomenon in the history of world art. After all, not having even an elementary school education, not finding the support and understanding of her relatives in her desire to paint, Kateryna Bilokur reached the highest peaks in artistic creativity.

Kateryna’s painting was inspired by the nature of her native village, but the beauty of flowers took precedence. She considered flowers the eyes of the earth, she called them her children, “flowers, like people, are alive and have a soul.”
Kateryna Bilokur’s paintings were exhibited not only in Ukraine, but also in France, Canada, Japan, Bulgaria, the Baltic countries.
We will remind that all the trials of the 20th century fell to the fate of Kateryna Bilokur. She had to survive the October coup of 1917, the civil war, collectivization, the Holodomor of 1932-1933 and the Second World War.

Throughout her creative activity, Kateryna Vasylivna repeatedly returned to the portrait genre. In the fifties of the XX c. She creates several still lifes.
The works of Kateryna Bilokur, like the artist herself, are unique. Painted walks through flower gardens cause great pleasure and keep you in a fairy-tale and magical captivity. She is an artist whose art is highly respected both in Ukraine and abroad.