Natalia Kolpakova is an award-winning graphic artist from Kyiv, Ukraine, now based in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.
Working between illustration, design, and contemporary textile art, she creates large square silk works that exist both as wearable paintings and as wall-based artworks.
Her practice is rooted in surreal, layered visual storytelling, where myth, memory, dream logic, and subtle psychological tension come together in richly inhabited image-worlds.
Drawn to silk for its associations with intimacy, elegance, tradition, and transformation, Kolpakova uses the medium to build poetic spaces that feel both personal and theatrical.
In this body of work, each square composition becomes a kind of inner room: a living space for thoughts, symbols, creatures, and emotional traces.
Rather than depicting home as a fixed physical place, her works suggest home as a shifting mental and imaginative territory shaped by memory, desire, displacement, and presence.
Architectural fragments, dreamlike figures, and narrative details appear as if they are quietly inhabiting these spaces, inviting the viewer to enter them slowly and intuitively.
Through scale, texture, and the square format, Kolpakova creates intimate visual environments in which each work functions as a self-contained world while remaining part of a wider emotional landscape.
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
