Ukrainian artistSvetlana Ivanchenkomakes beautiful sand and shell mosaics using materials commonly found on beaches.

Each portrait were carefully assembled by hand, and no colors were used.

Svetlana was born and raised on the Black Sea in Yalta.

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She studied at the Art School of the famous Crimean artist Sergei Bokaeva.

Later she graduated from the Pedagogical Institute Glukhovsky.

She currently lives and works in Dnepropetrovsk.

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Her works adorn private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Germany and Israel.

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