Gennadiy Kirichenko was born in Lugansk in worker’s family on May 16, 1968. His desire to paint woke up at a very early age.

Once walking in a park with his father, Gennadiy saw an artist drawing on a planner. The boy was astonished by the artist’s ability to convey the oak tree bark pattern so realistically on paper. The meeting transformed the boy’s future, having ignited in him a strong desire to learn to paint.

His parents did not hamper the development of the new hobby. First, Gennadiy entered an art studio, and then he was enrolled in children’s art school. After graduating from the secondary school, he went on to study in Voroshilovgrad State Art College from 1983 to 1987.

Having completed his military service in one of the state border divisions, Gennadiy Kirichenko had various work experiences: he tried working as an application artist for “Florida Company”, a menial worker, a miner; he collaborated with a juridical firm “St. Peterburg”; ran the “Artsaloon” gallery, worked as an advertisement manager at the “Progress” factory, was the head of PR and advertisement department in Lugansk branch office of “Euroinform Ltd”.

Since 1996 Gennadiy Kirichenko has been a member of Lugansk Municipal Creative art union. In 2003 he also became a member of Artists of Russia Creative Union and International Artists Federation.

During almost 40 years of his life Gennadiy has been practicing art relentlessly, from year to year bringing his creative skills to perfection. He has been studying meticulously the of his favorite artists- I. Aivasovsky, K. Korovin, I. Kramskoy, I. Repin, I. Shishkin, V. Polenov.

In his free time the young Lugansk artist travels a lot, visits museums, and participates in art exhibitions in different galleries of Ukraine and Russia.All these activities fuel his creativity, enrich his knowledge and inspire his new works.

There are works of different genres in Gennadiy Kirichenko’s portfolio, but he gives his personal preference to landscape art, it is his basic and favorite theme, the closest to him.

In his works Gennadiy strives to achieve absolute colorist accuracy, getting across to the viewers the nature’s condition and mood, its character and charm. His works always demonstrate the play of light and shadow, the harmony’s sensual reality, the nature’s life-giving power, the eternity of beauty and the fragility of our being.