Oil painting Hay under the snow Oksana Ivanyuk

№AAA5140

The oil painting on Cardboard titled "Hay under the Snow" presents a raw and vivid portrayal of winter’s silent embrace over the remnants of a rural autumn. Using a bold, impasto technique and a highly expressive color palette, the artist has captured a moment of transformation—where the golden hues of stored hay meet the cold, crystalline silence of snowfall. This encounter between the warm and the cold, the dry and the frozen, imbues the painting with a tension that is both visual and emotional. At the center of the composition are several haystacks, their rounded, organic forms partially cloaked by fresh snow. Each mound is textured richly with thick strokes of ochre, umber, sienna, and sap green—tones that reveal the dry, fibrous life stored beneath the icy blanket. The snow, rendered in voluminous, sweeping whites, pale blues, and hints of lavender, drapes the haystacks like a shroud. It is not delicate; it is palpable, weighty, pressing down with a quiet authority. Yet, the golden bodies of the hay persist, glowing from beneath like embers not yet extinguished by the season’s chill. The artist uses daring contrasts and vibrant colors to construct a setting that feels at once familiar and dreamlike. The ground is a tapestry of white and violet shadows, green grass frozen in time, and brushstrokes that mimic the uneven, patchy melting of snow. A sky of deep cerulean and swirling ultramarine looms above, echoing the emotional richness of Van Gogh’s post-impressionist nightscapes. Wisps of clouds drift through the upper half of the painting, in thick strokes of blue-violet and lavender, creating a sense of movement against the stillness of the land below. A series of tall wooden stakes, jutting upward from the tops of the haystacks, serve as visual anchors. They punctuate the soft, rounded masses with linear sharpness, like spines braving the elements. These poles are reminders of human presence, of labor completed in the warmer months, and of a quiet endurance now continuing through winter. Their angled positions and connected ropes evoke a structure both fragile and resilient—a metaphor for the rustic life that withstands the cycles of nature.

*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Hay under the snow"
* ARTISTS: Oksana Ivanyuk
* SIZE: 15x20 cm/'5.90x7.87 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, cardboard
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product

About the artists: Oksana Ivanyuk was born in 1964 in Rivne region. The love of painting has taken over from the baby. From 1975 to 1980 she studied at the Zoryan Art School of Rivne region.
In 1985 she graduated from the Art College. M. Samokish (now has the status of a national university). Her teachers of painting were G. Kurilenko, V. Grigoriev. After graduating from the school, she began to work as a teacher of fine arts at the Piryatin School - a gymnasium of aesthetic education, which she founded with her husband in 1990.
Oksana Ivanyuk works in the landscape and still life genre. Personal exhibitions: Kyiv, Museum of Ukrainian Heritage; T. Shevchenko National Museum; the diplomatic mission of Ukraine to the USA (California) and others. She has participated in numerous exhibitions both in Ukraine and abroad.