About me

I am LARISA RUY. I CREATE THE FUTURE OF ART
I have never looked for easy paths or followed other people's canons. I create my own.

My artistic path began not with academic workshops, but with a deep inner awareness. I always understood that art is more than just beauty. It is a language with which you can change space, people and reality itself.

I combined painting, bas-relief, gilding, deep texture and symbolism, creating an author's technique that fascinates, makes you think and feel.

MY ART IS NOT JUST PAINTINGS, BUT ENERGY CODES
Each of my works is a multi-layered world of meanings. It is about strength, transformation and depth.

🔹 Sculpture on canvas is my unique technique that adds dimension and life to each work.
🔹 Powerful symbolism – each painting contains encoded stories that work at the subconscious level.
🔹 Psychological impact – my art does not just fill the space, but changes its energy.

That is why my works have already become part of private collections in the USA, Germany, UAE, India, Switzerland and Ukraine.

WHY INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE CHOOSE MY PAINTINGS
I have deeply studied psychology, human nature and the mechanisms of art's influence on consciousness.

I know how colors, shapes and textures work at a deep level.

My paintings are the keys to strength, stability and inner harmony.
That is why they are chosen by collectors, business leaders, visionaries – those who understand the true value of art.

My works do not adapt to trends – they create them.

I CREATE A LEGEND. MINE. AND NOW – YOURS.
I don't just want to sell paintings. I create artifacts of power that change the lives of their owners.

 

Artist Manifesto. Larisa Ruy

I don’t create from image — I create from silence.

From a space that opens only

when you stop striving and begin listening.

I don’t live by human limitations,

but by the laws of the Creator.

In His order, there is no pressure — only rhythm.

True freedom does not destroy,

it protects what is real.

I’m not looking for an audience.

I create space.

A place where one can be fully present —

without tension, without comparison,

without borrowed voices.

Solitude is not a verdict — it is a state of wholeness.

It is the place where the real begins.

Because you can only create

when you are connected to yourself,

not to the noise of the crowd.

I don’t believe in the need to compete.

When you are in your rightful place,

there’s nothing to prove.

What is yours does not cause strain —

and certainly not envy.

The need to compete appears

only where true value hasn’t yet been recognized.

Another’s path seems tempting

only when one’s own remains undiscovered.

Art is my craft.

I didn’t choose it — it chose me.

It’s not a profession, but a form of memory:

genetic, spiritual, inner.

My task is to preserve, multiply, and carry it forward.

My works are not answers.

They are mirrors.

They don’t explain who to be.

They simply remind:

Paradise is not later.

Paradise is the state

in which you are exactly where you belong.

What is real doesn’t shout.

What is real — holds.

Larisa Ruy.2025

 

Arts.in.ua / Arts Development Fund, Kyiv — September 6 – October 6, 2011 Participation in the Arts.in.ua group exhibition supported by the Arts Development Fund. Early paintings were exhibited.

Horse Spirit Festival / Kharkiv, October 2022 In autumn 2022, part of the “Golden Collection” was exhibited at the international Horse Spirit Festival in Kharkiv.

Mega TV Channel / Kyiv, 2012 In 2012, a “Mystical Ukraine” episode was filmed in Kyiv’s House of Baron Steingel.

Kamaliya’s Charity Night / Kyiv, 2016 The painting “A Dream” was exhibited at the Kamaliya’s Charity Night charity auction. The work was sold and is now part of a private international collection.

Art Seasons / M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv — October 6–17, 2017 In October 2017, works by Larisa Ruy were exhibited as part of the Art Seasons group show at M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv.

Art Seasons / M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv — October 6–17, 2017 In October 2017, works by Larisa Ruy were exhibited as part of the Art Seasons group show at M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv.

Drama Theater, Mukachevo, Transcarpathia — June 2–14, 2022 A solo exhibition at the Mukachevo Drama Theater presented a series of works in symbolic technique.

Drama Theater, Mukachevo, Transcarpathia — June 2–14, 2022 A solo exhibition at the Mukachevo Drama Theater presented a series of works in symbolic technique.

Festival of contemporary Ukrainian art opened at the M17 Contemporary Art Center

Festival of contemporary Ukrainian art opened at the M17 Contemporary Art Center

Drama Theater, Mukachevo, Transcarpathia — June 2–14, 2022 A solo exhibition at the Mukachevo Drama Theater presented a series of works in symbolic technique.

Drama Theater, Mukachevo, Transcarpathia — June 2–14, 2022 A solo exhibition at the Mukachevo Drama Theater presented a series of works in symbolic technique.

Photo shoot for Viva! magazine / Kyiv, 2021 One of Larisa Ruy’s paintings was featured as part of the art interior in a 2021 Viva! magazine photo shoot with Kamaliya and Mohammad Zahoor.

Photo shoot for Viva! magazine / Kyiv, 2021 One of Larisa Ruy’s paintings was featured as part of the art interior in a 2021 Viva! magazine photo shoot with Kamaliya and Mohammad Zahoor.

“Paradise” / Foundation for the Development of Art, Kyiv — November 4–16, 2011 My first solo exhibition “Paradise” took place in 2011 with the support of the Foundation for the Development of Art in Kyiv

“Paradise” / Foundation for the Development of Art, Kyiv — November 4–16, 2011 My first solo exhibition “Paradise” took place in 2011 with the support of the Foundation for the Development of Art in Kyiv