Serhiy KARPENKO 1965 — Сергій КАРПЕНКО • Сергей КАРПЕНКОSerhiy Karpenko was born in 1965 in Kozatyn, Vinnitska oblast. The artist is self-taught wood carver. He has discovered his talent in early childhood, while in school carving miniature figures from chalk in the age of 8. At the age of 18, during an internship in Russian town of Ufa, he purchased his first set of wood carving tools. In 1993 Serhiy came across biblical album of Dore`s etchings. Impressed with the album the artist produced his first bas-relief woodcarving, depicting Christ with Samaritan by water spring, which opened the series of figurative religious artworks. Since 1997 Karpenko`s carving activity grows into a full scale artistic profession. In 2000 the artist was awarded with the medal of St. Volodymyr the Great by Patriarch Filaret. In 2004 Karpenko becomes a member of the carvers union of Ukraine. |
