About me

Tetiana Teslyeva

I am a Ukrainian artist originally from Kharkiv, currently living and working in County Kerry, Ireland.

For over fifteen years, I worked in interior design – a practice built on understanding how space affects people, how proportion and light shape experience, how a room can have character and life of its own – or feel like it has none. That sensibility never left me. It just found a different form.

In 2022, following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I relocated to Ireland with my family. The move was abrupt and irreversible. Kerry became not just a place to live, but a place to look – slowly, carefully, with the particular attention that comes from starting over somewhere new.

I work primarily with acrylic on canvas, panels and paper. My background in design shapes how I think about composition, balance and visual clarity.
But what drives the work is something quieter – the need to hold a moment still long enough to understand what it meant.

My painting practice grows from that attention. I work with landscape not as documentation but as lived experience – the quality of light at a specific hour, the weight of silence in open fields, the moment when a familiar road starts to feel like yours. I am interested in what a place holds: memory, time, the quiet persistence of things that don’t change.

My paintings are detailed and attentive. People sometimes say they look like photographs. I take that as a starting point, not a destination – because what I’m after is something a camera doesn’t catch.