Oksana Greer
Water Color
Orange Prairie - Spring
Orange Prairie - Summer
Orange Prairie - Autumn
Orange Prairie - Winter
Biography
Oksana is a visual artist based in Peoria, working primarily with soft pastels and watercolor. She was born in North Caucuses, USSR. An avid painter since childhood, she studied art in Stavropol Art School. After receiving her master’s degree, Oksana moved to Peoria and augmented her formal art studies with extensive travels in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia painting and visiting the great museums.
Oksana believes that art is a reflection of other fields of human reality, both visible and invisible. Art is also the language that allows her to think and create new essences. She is inspired by nature and the colors it produces.
Her paintings hang in public, private, and corporate collections around the world. Oksana is in the Class of 2023 Sky Art Peoria. She also won second place in the “En Plein Air” Art Competition in Peoria Heights in 2023 and 2024.
Artist Statement
These images of rolling prairies are a homage to the original settlers in this now rapidly expanding area in Peoria.
