She was born in the Cossack city of Zaporozhye in 1976.

In 1995 she graduated from the Lvov Trush Decorative and Applied Art College.

In Lvov Nataliya has opened the world of icons for herself.

It became an incitement to choose the Faculty of the Sacral Art at the Lvov Academy of Arts.

She graduated from the Academy in 2001.

Since 2001 Nataliya lived and creatively worked in Italy.

In 2002 attended Courses of Modern Sacral Art and Architecture at the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose G.Toniolo in Pescara.

She participated in numerous collective exhibitions and competitions.

She also has presented 3 personal exhibitions: Sette Giorni, Sette Eventi, Cattolica, Italy, 2003, Il Mondo delle Icone, Avezzano, Italy, 2004, Colori … Simboli … Passione …, L'Aquila, Italy, 2005.

She made a stained-glass window The Annunciation especially for the Ukrainian church in Mackwiller (France).

Her works can be found in private collections of Ukraine, Russia, Italy, Turkey, France and Mongolia.

Now Derevyanko Nataliya is the teacher on the Chair of Design in Zaporozhye Electrotechnical College and Zaporozhye National University.

• 1999 – the collective exhibition of the Sacral Art – gallery The Yarosvit , Lvov;

• 2000 – the collective exhibition Autumn Vernissage – the Palace of Arts, Lvov;

• 2002 – the collective exhibition Ñentro Storico, Trasacco (Italy);

• 2002 – the second place at competition exhibition – Poggiofiorito (Italy)

• 2003 – the personal exhibition Seven Days of the World’s Creation (Sette Giorni, Sette Eventi) - Teatro della Regina – Cattolica (Italy);

• 2004 – the special award in competition Valle Giovengo – Lecce nei Marsi (Italy);

• 2004 – the personal exhibition The World of Icons (Il Mondo delle Icone) - Castello Piccolomini, Avezzano (Italy);

• 2005 – the collective exhibition Miracolo di Lanciano – Lanciano, 2004 (Italy);

• 2005 – the collective exhibition Spazio d’arte – Verdelais (France);

• 2005 – the collective exhibition Marguttiana d’arte – Antichi forni, Macerata (Italy);

• 2005 – the collective exhibition Mondo Colori - Palazzetto dei Nobili - L’Aquila (Italy);

• 2005 – the personal exhibition Colour … Symbol … Suffering … (Colori … Simboli … Passione …) – L’Aquila (Italy);

• 2005 – the third place at competition exhibition XIII Premio G.D’Annunzio – Pescara (Italy);

• 2006 – the collective exhibition PAN– Pannarano (Italy);

• 2006 – the second place at competition åxhibition XIV Premio G.D’Annunzio – Pescara (Italy);

• 2006 – the collective exhibition Christmas Vernissage – Zaporozhye Organisation of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Zaporozhye;

• 2007 – the All - Ukrainian Art Exhibition Women of Ukraine — Artists, Kiev, Ukraine.