Natalia Kolpakova is an award-winning artist from Kyiv, Ukraine, now based in Falmouth, UK, whose practice moves between illustration, design, and contemporary textile art.
She creates large square silk works that combine surreal storytelling, symbolic imagery, and a strong sense of atmosphere.
For Kolpakova, each composition is a living space inhabited by images, thoughts, and fragments of inner experience.
Her works invite the viewer into poetic worlds where home is understood not only as a place, but as an emotional and imaginative state
Award-winning graphic artist and designer working across contemporary textile art, illustration, and visual storytelling.
Creates large-scale silk works and digital compositions exhibited as wearable art and wall-based pieces.
Selected exhibitions and presentations
2026 – Framed: Cornwall Open, Cornwall Museum & Art Gallery, Truro, UK; People’s Choice Award
2025 – Mega Art Gallery, Venice, Italy; Ukrainian Days, Paleet, Oslo, Norway; Framed, Truro, UK
2024 – The Other Art Fair, London, UK; Imagine Falmouth, UK; WARLESS (solo), The Poly, Falmouth, UK
2023 – Holy Art Fair, London, UK; London Design Fair, UK; London Accessory Week, UK
2022 – High Point Market, USA; Helsinki Design Week, Finland; Supernova. Art of Ukraine, Basel Art Center, Switzerland
2018 – Solo exhibition at the United Nations, Vienna, Austria; Palimpsest (solo), Ukraine; Days of Ukrainian Culture (solo), Antalya, Turkey
2011–2017 – Exhibitions in Kyiv, Lviv, Bratislava, Paris, Opishne, and Douro
2009–2010 – Early solo exhibitions in Kyiv, Ukraine
Awards and recognition
People’s Choice Award, Framed: Cornwall Open, 2026
VAA Art100 International Winner, 2025
Finalist, Artist of the Year Awards, 2025
16th International Design Awards: Gold, Silver, and Bronze, 2023
European Product Design Award Winner, 2022
Epson Digital Fashion Contest, Silver Award, 2019
Talents at Formex, Stockholm, Winner, 2020
