Vita Soyka, Doll's Artist, Jewellery Designer, Painter, Lviv, Ukraine

    Vita Soyka's portrait

Vita Soyka: "My dream is to see the people finally start to enjoy the process of learning and the creativity itself. I'd love to see it in this lifetime"

"Sophie", Doll created by Vita Soyka

"Sophie" created by Vita Soyka -  Details : Doll costumes are made by hand stitching exceptionally, using original fabrics, threads and sewing accessories of XVIII – XIX centuries. 

All clothes removable and demonstrates in details European costume XVII – XVIII centuries

Shoes are wood-carved and miniature copy of museum models of XVIII century’s female footwear

Vita Soyka: " I made ​​a doll and her clothes,I had as a source the portraits of a lady, as an example of fashion and dress code The name"Sophie" has chosen intuitively. This is my sixth doll. And now, just today in wikipedia find depicted in these portraits of a woman! This daughter of the King of France Louis 15 -Sofia!  At the court she called "Madam Six" in seniority in the Royal family .... Mystery "

BPP: Who are you?  And who you really are?

Vita Soyka: My name is Vita Soyka. I am an artist-dollmaker. I am an artist by profession and by vocation. If I worked as a salesman at the store, I would still be an artist. It's my nature and perception of the World.

I make wooden dolls, make jewelry for women, drawing pictures, writing poems in my native Ukrainian language ... could do much more, but life is too short to learn to do well.

Vita Soyka with "Mapi",  her second Noble Doll, created by the artist at 2010

Vita Soyka's portrait with one of   Alena Zhirenkina's creation in her arms

Vita Soyka presents her doll "Camilla", one of her dolls of the "Noble Collection"

BPP: If you could say something important to others who were listening, what would you tell them?

Vita Soyka: The work of any artist is a self-portrait of his soul, and even an international language to communicate about the most intimate) The fact that not express in words. On this most important thing I could say to people to let me speak with  my dolls, with  their eyes and ftheir aces and  their smiles.

Great details of the Noble Dolls

Small, beautiful details of her creations

Created the face of the Doll "Marie Antoinette"

The portrait of the historical  person Marie Antoinette and the Doll Marie Antoinette, 

created by Vita Soyka

Vita Soyka: "Mari Antoinette (my most beautiful clothes and my most favorite Doll"

Tree carvings, priming, egg tempera, glass, natural hair. Based in a female costume of the 18th century, ​​exclusively handstitch

BPP:  What is your true dream, the one that keeps you up at night and if one day it were to come true you would feel peace and calmness in your heart?

Vita Soyka: I dream of a time when people calm down and finally will show an interest in life itself rather than the achievements of other people. When people will finally learn to enjoy the process of learning and the creativity itself. I'd love to see it in this lifetime.

From the Collection: "Noble Dolls", created by Vita Soyka

Noble Doll, "Camilla" , created by Vita Soyka

Noble Doll "Mapi", created by Vita Soyka

BPP: How is life currently for the people in your country and what would you wish for them and for the planet at large?

Vita Soyka: My country is experiencing now is not the best time. But it is still young, and I believe that this problem, "adolescence" in the history of Ukraine. Ukraine will outgrow youthful lack of balance and benefit from all errors. Someday ... This is my homeland and my family and its problems - it's my problem, even when I'm away. I believe that all good things to come.

Vita Soyka wearing a costume of Ukraine

Vita Soyka at her country, Ukraine

Vita's portrait

BPP: If you had a chance to be a child again would you choose the same life?

Vita Soyka: If I had a chance to live life over again, I'm sure that would be chosen the same path ... the same profession.

The Jewellery Collection of Vita Soyka

BPP:  What was the exact moment that you realized what you wanted to do with your life?  How did you feel at this very moment?

Vita Soyka: I was never a question what to do with my life - I grew up in a family of artists (my father - a painter, my mother - sculptor). 

I drew from early childhood and after elementary school a student went to the artistic field. This 

is my life since birth .

How do I feel in this life? ... Great! Despite the difficult compatibility of creativity and everyday 

life. If the artist does not like what he does, he needs to find myself in something else.

Jewellery made by Vita Soyka

Hand made jewellery made from ancient and modern beads, venice glass, pearls, stones, silver and coloured metals

 The former First Lady of Ukraine Kateryna Yushchenko, wearingone of  Vita Soyka's necklesses

BPP: Would you like to tell us something we didn’t ask until now?

Vita Soyka:What to tell ?? ... I'll tell you about dolls! I play with dolls all my life! Loved dolls as a 

child. However there was a pause in the making of me as a wife and mother, but I found a way 

to return to the hobby! Several years ago, I began collecting antique porcelain dolls. This is a 

great lesson! In ancient dolls have some kind of mysticism. They radiate a special warmth.

A portrait of Vita Soyka - Black paper, colored pencils/ 2009

 One  day, my collection was replenished with two very old early dolls made of wood. And when 

my hands touched these ancestors of modern Barbie - I realized that this is what I want to be 

engaged! Making wooden dolls! These two wooden lady told me if something very important 

for them and for me. Since then, I consider myself a dollmaker! 

Vita Soyka's portrait. She wears one of her necklesses

Vita Soyka's drawings from her early years, kindly presented here at BPProject

One more of her drawings as a child

Photos by Serhiy Bratkovsky from Usa, Natalia Kurochkina from Russia and Vita Soyka.
All rights reserved.

If you want to learn more about Vita Soyka, visit:


http://vitasoyka.blogspot.com/


http://noble-dolls.com


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