born 1953
Maria Pikush
Shevchenko Prize laureate · head of the Pata art school from 1995
Decorations
2025 National Taras Shevchenko Prize, decorative and applied art
Honoured Master of Folk Art of Ukraine
Badges: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Taught by
Vasyl Sokolenko
Taught
Oksana Pikush, and the pupils of the Pata school
Maria Pikush learned from Vasyl Sokolenko and taught at the Petrykivka children's art school. When the school became an independent institution in 1995 she took it over as its head. With Andrii Pikush she taught their daughter Oksana at home.
In March 2025 she received the National Taras Shevchenko Prize together with Andrii Pikush, A. Karpets-Yermolaieva and N. Rybak, for the project «Petrykivka painting: in defence of identity».
Sources differ on her year of birth, giving 1953 and 1954. The family will settle it.
From the same school
Work of the tradition this hand belongs to
Paper, wood and porcelain from the same Petrykivka line, each credited to its source.
Ochre and green frieze
A horizontal band in the ochre-green range, close to what a painter would run along a wall.
Pink panel
A vertical panel of layered pink blooms, mounted on dark wood.
Painted plate, violet and crimson
A round plate worked as a wreath, photographed on a dark table.
Porcelain vase
Painted by Marfa Tymchenko
Overglaze painting on porcelain, made at the Kyiv experimental ceramic-art factory in the second half of the twentieth century.
Chest, «Blue flowers»
Painted by Nataliia Statyva-Zharko
A painted wooden chest in a cool blue range, away from the red-and-gold the factory made familiar.
Plate, «August»
A wooden plate with a peacock at its centre, ringed by a running border.
Poppies and cornflowers
A hand-painted sheet in the classic red-and-blue field pairing.
Casket with viburnum, 1980s
A wooden casket where the berry clusters show the finger technique clearly.