The Blessed Virgin Mary

According to legend, the enemies were supposed to attack Constantinople, but the Blessed Virgin came to the city and covered all the townspeople with a veil of her clothes, protecting them from attackers. There was such a storm around the city that the enemies could not even get close to it.

Nika Liubchych, 2022 | Ukraine

Nika Liubchych was born in Minsk, Belarus. She graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Department of Decorative and Applied Arts. Since 2007, she has been engaged in artistic ceramics, participated in exhibitions and plein airs. In 2009, she moved to Ukraine where she continued to work in artistic ceramics, which were more of her interest. In 2019, Nika visited the Sketchers Camp in Kharkiv. Since then, she decided to do more illustrations. She has collaborated with many Ukrainian publications, including illustrating articles. She also often does animation illustrations for media and music videos.

See more of Nika’s work on Instagram and Behance.

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