№1 from the "February 2022-2023" Series

Mitia Fenechkin is a renowned Ukrainian artist, designer, and illustrator, born in 1988.

He is the author of four art books, his works have been featured in group and personal exhibitions. The artwork of Mitia Fenechkin also includes album covers for Ukrainian musicians, including Okean Elzy, Liniia Mannerheima, Nytso Potvorno, Zapaska, Palindrom, etc.

The artist studied design at the National University of Shipbuilding in Mykolaiv. Since 2007, he has worked in the field of interior design and since 2010, he has been engaged in graphic design and illustration. From 2012 to 2017, he worked as a 2D artist at the Plarium Company (Odesa, Ukraine). Since 2018, he has been an art producer at Plarium Odesa.

Fenechkin's art has been showcased in various solo exhibitions, such as "Between reality and dreaming" (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023), "Great Finding. Step Three" (with Serhii Melnitchenko) (Kyiv, 2023), "How are things at your home?" (Cherkasy, Ukraine, 2023), "And the sun went black and the sea froze" (Lutsk, Ukraine, 2024) and group exhibitions such, as "Don't close your eyes" (Boston, USA, 2022), "Diaries" (Kyiv, 2022), "Ukrainian wartime poster" (Kyiv, 2022), "War map" (Herzliya, Israel, 2022).

Currently, the artist lives and works in Odesa. 

The artist's approach spans a variety of mediums, blending traditional techniques with modern innovations. Fenechkin works with watercolor pencils to create drawings on paper. In addition to his hand-drawn works, he also embraces digital prints. 

Among Mitia Fenechkin's original drawings are №2 from the "February 2022-2023" Series (2023), "The Sun Turns into a Monument" (2023), "The Sun Disappears into the Room under the Water" (2023), "Meeting 1" (2023), "There Was Home Around Somewhere" (2022), and many more. 

His digital prints created in 2022 include "Unread Message 1", "Unread Message 2", "Unread Message 3", and "Unread Message 4". Mitia Fenechkin’s works for sale are available on the UFDA website. 

The evolution of the artist's style includes a transition from digital illustration to works on paper. 

As Mitia said in an interview with Bird in Flight, he started drawing again about two weeks after the onset of the russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He quoted that, at first, it was difficult to create images, so he simply drew from photographs, capturing what was happening, like in a diary. 

Fenechkin's Black Holes is a series of 25 drawings, each featuring a black square or rectangle — a window of a bombed house — with barely perceptible silhouettes of a life that no longer exists inside the rectangle. The aqWARelle series consists of small, quick watercolor sketches. Currently, the artist mainly draws with watercolor pencils on paper.