Eugene Gapchinskaya is the artist who produced this lovely card. The writing, I'm told, is Ukrainian for "King pink gulls". I worried about this for a long time because it seemed to make no sense. It probably doesn't make any sense - I've discovered that this artist has also illustrated a version of Alice in Wonderland. He (or maybe she) clearly doesn't worry too much about making sense.
He (or maybe she) appears to be very well known. Ukraine has published a series of stamps (scroll down) with these illustrations and there is a Facebook page with many more. It was looking through the Facebook page that made me thing that he may be a she.
Beautiful card! Love the art work. I've never heard of that artist, but now I'll be on the lookout for his stuff. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI think, perhaps, some of the nicest things in life make no sense at all.
ReplyDeletePetrhaps some deep allegorical meaning.
ReplyDeleteA Ukrainian girl told me Eugene is a "she" :)
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