Anhelina Holembivska

Alessandra Pagliuca
Jun 7
3 min read

Updated: Oct 5

November 14, 15, 16 - 2025

From Life to Light: Painting Flowers with the Three-Layer Technique

👉 Painting from Life!

For the first time ever as a teacher, Anhelina Holembivska, a Ukrainian artist based in Florence, brings her oil painting technique, focusing on flowers, to the educational setting. An intensive three-day workshop will uncover the artist's secrets and understand how to achieve realism in the floral world.

Details

Dates: Friday, November 14th, Saturday, November 15th, and Sunday, November 16th, 2025

Duration: 18-hour full immersion (three days of 6 hours each)

Times: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM / 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Workshop Price: €490 per person

Technique: Oil painting

Minimum number of participants: 10

Maximum number of participants: 18

Level: All

Languages: English, Italian (English-to-Italian interpreter included)

*Materials not included

Workshop Description

What you'll learn

This 3-day workshop is dedicated to painting flowers from life using the traditional three-layer technique. Participants will complete one floral painting, learning a clear and structured approach that removes the uncertainty of how to move forward at each stage. Through direct observation and guided instruction, we'll explore how to build a painting in layers—moving from composition and underpainting to color development, impasto, and final glazing. The painting will be done from life, therefore starting from a floral arrangement chosen by the teacher.

Program

Day 1

Drawing and underpainting – exploring composition, color planning, and the role of the first layer

Day 2

Second layer – working with premixed colors, developing form and detail, introducing impasto techniques

Day 3

Finishing touches – refining the painting with detail work, atmosphere, and selective glazing

Extra services

To enrich the learning experience, the artist will be supported by her husband and fellow artist, Andrii Kateryniuk, who will assist her during the sessions, offering individual support and technical guidance.

Each participant will also receive a reference kit, which includes:

• High-resolution floral images

• Recommended palettes

• Step-by-step overview of the painting process

This is designed to support post-workshop practice.

The artist

Anhelina Holembivska

Anhelina Holembivska is a Ukrainian painter currently based in Florence, Italy. Working primarily in oil, she is known for her luminous still lifes, delicate florals, and compositions that combine classical techniques with a poetic sensibility. Her approach is grounded in traditional methods yet infused with a personal vision shaped by both Eastern and Western influences.

Raised in the Ukrainian countryside, Holembivska developed a close relationship with the natural world early on—a connection that continues to inform her subject matter and palette. She studied painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Kyiv before relocating to Florence to deepen her training at the Academy of Fine Arts, where she immersed herself in the artistic legacy of the Italian Renaissance.

Holembivska's work is shaped by a reverence for craftsmanship, drawing inspiration from the clarity and rhythm of Flemish painting, the soft symbolism of Botticelli, and the compositional harmony found in Japanese woodblock prints. Her paintings are often described as contemplative and intimate, offering a sense of stillness that invites slow looking.

She is represented by Arcadia Contemporary in New York, and her work has been exhibited internationally and included in private collections across Europe and North America.