In the series Between Generations, Ukrainian figurative artist Halyna Kirichenko explores family life as a space where personal histories, values, and life choices are quietly formed and passed on. Family is portrayed not only as a social unit, but as an intimate emotional territory shaped by care, responsibility, vulnerability, and love.
Through symbolic figurative scenes, the artist reflects on relationships between parents and children, the continuity of generations, and the invisible threads that connect individual destinies. These works consider how major life decisions, inner transformations, and historical realities are experienced within the family and carried forward across time.
Between Generations invites the viewer into a contemplative dialogue about belonging, memory, and the silent influence of those who came before us.
” What Time Cannot Break”
acrylic on canvas 90 x 90 cm
Inspired by a photograph from a family album, this painting reflects on friendship as an enduring bond that begins in childhood and quietly supports individuals throughout their lives. The figures are united by shared memory and emotional closeness, forming a connection that deepens rather than fades with time.
Within the Between Generations series, the work speaks of friendships that become part of one’s inner family — relationships shaped by trust, care, and lived experience. These bonds offer stability during life’s transitions, carrying personal histories forward across different stages of life.
What Time Cannot Break invites the viewer to reflect on the invisible ties that sustain us, reminding us that some connections remain intact despite change, distance, and the passing of years.
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” When the Storm Is Outside” artwork from series ” Between Generations”
acrylic on canvas 90 x 90 cm
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This painting reflects the family as a place of shelter and emotional safety when the outside world feels uncertain or hostile. The intimate closeness of the mother and child forms a quiet refuge, emphasizing the child’s deep need to feel protected, understood, and supported within the family.
The window becomes a symbolic boundary between two realities: the fragile, unpredictable world outside and the warm, protective space of home. By softening individual features, the artist speaks not about a specific story, but about a universal experience, where maternal care and family love offer stability and reassurance. As part of the Between Generations series, the work explores how a sense of security formed in childhood becomes an inner resource that helps a person face life’s storms later on.
” Where I Am Safe” artwork from Series ” Between Generations “
original acrylic painting on canvas 90 x 90 cm
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They are close, as if the world has paused around them. The mother’s presence is calm and steady — not a gesture, but a state of being. The girl leans into her, trusting that here nothing needs to be explained, that being near is enough.
This moment is built on silence, on care that does not demand words. It speaks of love as responsibility, of protection that is felt rather than declared. Within this closeness, safety becomes something learned — something that quietly shapes how a child understands the world.
But is every child given such a place? Does every child feel protected, understood, and supported within their family? And where does safety truly begin — in the arms of another, or in the love we are taught to carry within ourselves?
Threads Between Generations from the series “Between Generations”
original acrylic painting on canvas 90 x 90 cm
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In this painting from the series Between Generations, Ukrainian figurative artist Halyna Kirichenko reflects on the quiet continuity that connects human lives across time.
Set within a calm natural landscape, three female figures — a grandmother, a mother, and a child — stand together in a moment of stillness. They embody different stages of life, yet they are united by invisible threads of memory, care, and experience that flow gently from one generation to the next.
At the heart of this silent dialogue is the presence of the grandmother. She represents a deep source of wisdom and emotional grounding in the life of a child. Through shared moments, stories, and quiet gestures, the grandmother passes on something that cannot be measured or fully explained — a sense of belonging, resilience, and continuity.
Within Kirichenko’s artistic exploration of the stages of human life, family becomes a living bridge between past and future. The women in the painting form a delicate chain of experience, where each generation carries traces of the ones that came before.
The work invites the viewer to pause and reflect:
What invisible threads connect us to those who came before us — and what will we quietly pass on to the generations that follow?
” Safe in Your Arms” artwork from series ” Between Generations”
acrylic on canvas 100 x 90 cm
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This painting captures a moment of quiet closeness — a space where one feels protected, held, and understood without words.
Two figures merge into a single, unified form, suggesting a bond that goes beyond time. It is a connection between generations, where care, memory, and strength are passed from one to another, becoming part of who we are.
In a world that is constantly shifting, this embrace becomes a place of stability. The family is not shown as a story, but as a feeling — a source of support, where one can return in moments of uncertainty.
The softness of the surrounding landscape enhances this sense of calm and timelessness, creating an atmosphere that feels both intimate and universal.
Through this work, the artist reflects on the enduring need for closeness and belonging — and invites the viewer to remember the place, the person, or the feeling where they are truly safe.
” Somewhere Between Who I Was and Who I Am” artwork from series ” Between Generations”
100 x 90 cm acrylic on canvas
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This painting explores the quiet, often invisible space between different stages of the self — a moment suspended between past and becoming. Two figures sit face to face, mirroring one another like reflections across time. They may be two generations, or two versions of the same person — the one we once were and the one we are still becoming.
Halyna Kirichenko’s work is rooted in the idea that life unfolds through a series of inner transitions shaped by choice, responsibility, and transformation. In today’s fast-changing world, where identities shift and paths are constantly redefined, these moments of pause become essential. They offer a rare opportunity to listen inwardly and confront the questions that define us.
Is who we are today the result of conscious decisions, intuition, or circumstance? Could we have chosen differently? And what do we carry forward from one stage of life into the next?
The figures, dressed in richly patterned garments, evoke memory, continuity, and the emotional inheritance passed between generations. Their facelessness removes individuality, allowing the viewer to step into the scene and recognize their own experience within it.
Balancing intimacy and distance, the painting becomes a contemplative space — a place where time softens, and the dialogue between past and present unfolds in silence.
Kirichenko invites the viewer not to find answers, but to remain within the question.
” Safe Within Her Arms” from series “Between Generations”
100 x 90 cm acrylic on canvas
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This work reflects on one of the most fundamental human needs — to feel safe, loved, and emotionally held.
At its core, it speaks about the family as a child’s first world: a place where trust is formed, where vulnerability is met with care, and where a deep sense of belonging begins. It is about the quiet strength of unconditional love — something that does not need to be explained, only felt.
In a rapidly changing and uncertain world, this inner sense of safety becomes essential. It shapes how we grow, how we make choices, and how we build relationships throughout our lives. What we receive in these early moments stays with us, becoming a foundation we return to again and again.
Part of the “Between Generations” series, this work reflects Halyna Kirichenko’s ongoing exploration of the invisible emotional bonds that define us. It gently invites the viewer to reflect on something deeply universal: every child deserves to grow in a space where they feel protected, understood, and unconditionally loved.
