Oleksa Bakhmatiuk
Oleksa Bakhmatiuk was a Ukrainian master of decorative tile painting.
At the Kolomyia Industrial Exhibition in 1880, where Oleksa Bakhmatiuk works were displayed, he received a gold award.
Plots and creative style
In the depiction of people, Bakhmatiuk developed a special manner, a certain canon. All of them are clearly typified. The figures, as a rule, stand in profile. Women—whether urban or Hutsul—are dressed in blouses and long skirts. Men are in short attire. The world of flora and fauna is widely represented by the master. Here, a flower that resembles a sunflower stands out—multi-petaled with a wide, hatched middle. There are depictions of beasts and birds—deer, bulls, lions, and luxurious peacocks and roosters.Bakhmatiuk, like other masters, invariably painted one or two images of Saint Nicholas on each of his stoves, in episcopal vestments, with sacred attributes in his hands, and a halo around his head. This was adherence to local traditions that had developed back at the beginning of the 19th century. On either side of the head were two figures which indicated the date the stove was made.