Founder of the school
Stanislav Volskyi
Honored Artist of Ukraine, associate professor of the Artistic Metal Department at LNAA
Biography
1943
Born on July 18 in the town of Slavuta, Khmelnytskyi region, into a family of teachers, Maria Frantsivna and Frants Ludvykovych.
1966–1970
Studied at the Ivan Trush Lviv College of Applied and Decorative Arts. Graduated with honors from the Department of Artistic Metalwork. Teacher: S. T. Melnychuk.
1967
Commissioned by the Lviv city authorities to create commemorative gifts for General Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev, as well as other Central Committee leaders: Ustinov, Kosygin, Shcherbytsky and Gorbachev.
1971–1977
Studied at the evening department of the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, graduating with honors. Teachers: E. P. Mysko, A. V. Sobolev, B. I. Halytsky.
1977
Worked as a jeweler-artist at the “DIAMANT” jewelry workshop.
1987
Member of the Union of Artists.
1990–2002
Worked at the Art Fund of Lviv.
1993–1994
Invited to the USA by “BRIDGE ATLANTIC CORPORATION” as a consultant on enamel and jewelry.
2002
Regional Zenoviy Flinta Prize in decorative and applied arts, for unique jewelry pieces of recent years.
2003
State award, title of “Honored Artist of Ukraine.” Lecturer at the Department of Artistic Metal of the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
2005
Head of the Applied Arts Section of the Lviv branch of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
2006
Associate professor of the Artistic Metal Department at LNAA.
2010
Awarded the Order of Mikhail Perkhin of the Carl Fabergé Memorial Foundation.
His works are held in museums in Kyiv, Moscow, Lviv and the Vatican, as well as in private collections in the USA, Israel, Canada, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands and Ukraine.
A modern-day Fabergé lives in LvivTSN — about Stanislav Volskyi
In 2010, the Carl Fabergé Memorial Foundation awarded the master the Order of Mikhail Perkhin — the head workmaster of the House of Fabergé. This distinction is given to jewelers whose work is worthy of the great school's legacy.
Catalog of Works
54 works across three sections — jewelry plastic art, 3D-spatial compositions and enamel painting. Titles, materials and years follow the catalog of the master's solo exhibition. Click any piece to see it up close.
I
Jewelry Plastic Art
Gold, hot enamel and precious stones — jewelry where precision craft meets sculptural freedom.
“Nefertiti” necklace
gold, topaz, diamonds, sapphires, hot enamel, 2005
Pendant
gold, citrine, diamonds, 2002
Set: brooch, earrings
gold, hot enamel, emerald, diamonds, 1996
“Lily” brooch
gold, hot enamel, diamonds, 2008
“Lidiya” necklace
gold, turquoise, 2001
Bracelet
gold, turquoise, 2001
“Summer” bracelet
gold, hot enamel, diamonds, 2007
“Surprise” ring
gold, beryl, diamonds, 2008
“Rose” ring
gold, hot enamel, diamonds, 2003
Ring
gold, lazurite, nephrite, diamonds
“Celebration” pendant
gold, beryl, hot enamel, diamonds, 2020
“Wave” necklace
nickel silver, mother-of-pearl, pearls, hot enamel, 1980
“Dream” cameo
shell, nickel silver, 2000
“The Cross”
enamel, garnet stone, gold, diamonds, 2019
Individual order
Amulet pendant
gold, garnet stone, hot enamel, diamonds, 2018
Amulet pendant
gold, garnet stones, sapphires, hot enamel, diamonds, 2018
Ring
silver, chrysoprase
“Lion” pendant
oxidized silver
LNAA ceremonial chains
“Ceremonial chain”
nickel silver, copper, enamel, 2019
Made for the inauguration ceremony honoring the Doctor Honoris Causa degree awarded by the Lviv National Academy of Arts to the distinguished Polish artist, educator and cultural figure, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Poland), Professor Adam Myjak.
“Ceremonial chain”
nickel silver, copper, enamel, bone, 2021
Made for the inauguration ceremony honoring the Doctor Honoris Causa degree awarded by the Lviv National Academy of Arts to the economist, cultural scholar, statesman and political figure, Doctor of Economic Sciences and Chairman of the LNAA Supervisory Board, Professor Stepan Davymuka.
II
3D-spatial compositions
Flowers of stone and metal in crystal — intimate sculpture continuing the tradition of the Fabergé workshops.
“Cactus IV”
silver, gold, opal, diamonds, hot enamel, 17×7×7 cm, 2001
“Cactus V”
sapphirine, amethyst, enamel, diamonds, silver, gold, 16×7×7 cm, 2006
Photo: Bohdana Shkin
“Cactus III”
silver, gold, agate, hot enamel, 10×8 cm, 2008
“Lily of the Valley”
silver, pearls, hot enamel, crystal, 16×6×6 cm, 2006
“Violets”
nephrite, lazurite, crystal, silver, gold, 12×8×8 cm, 2002
“Marsh Marigold”
nephrite, amber, crystal, silver, gold, 27×17×15 cm, 2000
III
Enamel painting
Hot enamel as painting: landscapes, icons and abstractions, born in a kiln at a thousand degrees.
“Debut”
hot enamel, 40×56 cm, 2008
“Irises”
hot enamel, 36×49 cm, 2008
“Sunflowers”
hot enamel, 46×49 cm, 2008
“Poppies”
hot enamel, 70×20 cm, 2005
“Boim Chapel”
hot enamel, 36×33 cm, 2008
“Lviv Gates”
hot enamel, 44×18 cm, 1988
“Sunset”
hot enamel, 49×22 cm, 2008
“Portrait of a Girl”
hot enamel, 24×16 cm, 1998
“Woman with Brushwood”
hot enamel, wrought metal, 24×16 cm, 1988
“Dream”
hot enamel, 46×14 cm, 1988
“Cosmic Roads”
hot enamel, 20×53 cm, 1989
From the triptych “Castles of Distant Childhood”
hot enamel, 18×18 cm, 1989
“Sorrow”
hot enamel, 18×16 cm, 1986
“Lamentation”
hot enamel, 11×12 cm, 1989
“Girlfriends”
hot enamel, 15×16 cm, 2007
“Dance”
hot enamel, 15×16 cm, 2007
“Circle of Life”
hot enamel, copper, wood
“Mamay”
hot enamel
“Trinity”
hot enamel, gold leaf
“Flight into Egypt”
hot enamel
St. George the Dragon-Slayer
hot enamel
“Hillside”
hot enamel, 7×9 cm, 2006
Wooden church
hot enamel
Tree
hot enamel
Apple tree in winter
hot enamel
Female figures
hot enamel
Bird
copper, hot enamel, metal
Flying fish
hot enamel, silver, 2019
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- ✦2008 — Solo exhibition “Castles of Childhood,” Kyiv. Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art.
- ✦2008 — Solo exhibition “Stanislav Volskyi. Jewelry Plastic Art, 3D-Spatial Sculpture, Enamel Painting,” Lviv. Lviv Historical Museum.
- ✦1986 — Solo exhibition, Lviv. Museum of Ethnography and Crafts.
International
- ✦2007 — International plein air, Poznań, Republic of Poland.
- ✦2003 — International plein air, Łańcut, Republic of Poland.
- ✦2003 — 5th International Jewelry Exhibition “Jeweler Expo Ukraine,” Kyiv.
- ✦1990 — Exhibition “Contemporary Jewelry Art,” All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts, Moscow.
All-Union (USSR)
- ✦1989 — All-Union exhibition “Artistic Enamel,” Moscow.
- ✦1987 — All-Union exhibition “Artistic Enamel,” House of Sculptors: Riga, Leningrad, Vilnius.
- ✦1987 — First All-Union enamel exhibition “Man. Earth. Universe,” Moscow.
- ✦1986 — 2nd All-Union Medal Exhibition. Exhibition Hall of the USSR Union of Artists, Moscow.
- ✦1975 — Second All-Union medal exhibition, Moscow.
All-Ukrainian
- ✦2019 — “Quadra Mini-Metal,” Lviv.
- ✦2018 — “QUADRA Mini-Metal. Jewelry Enamel Art.” National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art, Kyiv.
- ✦2018 — All-Ukrainian jewelry art exhibition, part of the project “Jewelry of a New Era: the Boundaries of Design and Craft,” Kamianets-Podilskyi.
- ✦2014–2015 — “QUADRA Mini-Metal. Jewelry — Art — Mini Enamels,” Kyiv.
- ✦2002 — Exhibition dedicated to Ukrainian decorative and applied arts, “200 Names,” Kyiv.
- ✦1999 — Exhibition of jewelry and enamel art, Kyiv.
Republican (Ukrainian SSR)
- ✦1987 — Republican exhibition “Land of the Soviets,” Kyiv.
- ✦1987 — Exhibition of applied and decorative art, Kyiv.
- ✦1986–1987 — Exhibition of works by contemporary Ukrainian jeweler-artists, dedicated to the 27th CPSU Congress. Museum of Historical Treasures of the Ukrainian SSR — a branch of the State Historical Museum of the Ukrainian SSR.
- ✦1986 — Exhibition of contemporary jewelry art, Kyiv.
- ✦1979 — 1st Republican Exhibition of Medal Art, Kyiv.
- ✦1975 — Exhibition of young artists, Kyiv.
Symposiums and juries
- ✦1988 (January 17 – March 15) — 5th All-Union Symposium on Hot Enamel, Palanga, Republic of Lithuania.
- ✦1986 — Symposium on hot enamel and jewelry art, Palanga, Republic of Lithuania.
- ✦2015 — Jury of the All-Ukrainian competition for the best jewelry design sketch among designers and decorative-art masters, Kharkiv.
Press and book mentions
Publications and articles
- S. F. Volskyi, O. V. Ivasiuta, N. Ya. Kravchenko, R. S. Patyk, “The Art of Adornment of the Last Third of the 20th – Early 21st Century. Theory, History, Practice”: textbook. Lviv: LNAA, 2018.
- Stanislav Volskyi, “The Art of Your Hands…” (on shaping the artistic method of the jeweler-artist). ISSN 2524-0943, BULLETIN of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, issue 37, 2018.
- Stanislav Volskyi, “The Art of Enamel Through the Centuries: an Attempt to Restore Lost Techniques in the Modern Practice of the Jeweler-Artist.” 2015.
- Stanislav Volskyi, “The Art of Enamel: a Master's Reflections and Original Methods for Applying Hot Enamel to Relief Surfaces.” BULLETIN of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, issue 30, 2016, pp. 174–179.