Polina Raiko, an artist by the grace of God. She lived all her life in a village in southern Ukraine (Kherson rpovince) by the Dnipro river, like so many other of her compatriots working hard and facing with dignity many hardships of her fate. Towards the end of her life she discovered in herself a gift for painting. Surprising, strange, and impossible to resist, it became her way of speaking, thinking, and making sense of the world around her. Like so many other talents, Polina Raiko is being discovered only now, after her death.
Polina Raiko (15.05.1928-15.01.2004) - grandmother from the city Tsuryupinsk near Herson. After the death of her husband and daughters and a few years being beating by her son-dipsomaniac, who sold almost all the furniture from her house, Polina Andreyevna at 69 years began to paint on the walls in her home, when her son got in to colony. She spent all her money on paint (enamel PF) and was painting on walls, doors and ceilings of her house until her death in 2004.
