Iryna Manukovska works as an interdisciplinary artist with mental health as a core object of analysis and reflection in her paintings and philosophical essays. As a person who overcame clinical depression in her late 20s and burnout twice, Iryna had studied what an important role the environment plays since 2010 when she entered her art background to overcome depression and burnout consequences. 

Iryna Manukovska is constantly investigating and looking for the connections between what we see and experience in the real world and how we feel about it. She uses the sky as a metaphor for freedom, sustainable development, and time. Looking through the perspective of both micro and macrocosm of being.

She got a Master's Degree in Applied System Analysis as her first education, so in her artworks she focuses on creating a system that involves different senses and parts of the brain to be able to deliver ideas to both consciousness and subconsciousness. For this purpose, Iryna chose to work in an abstract form of oil paintings by using colors and pastry techniques, supported by a philosophical essay with an open question behind it.

Studies show that during the darkest our for our wellbeing we are tended to perceive world in an a grey or a black & white mode.  Clinical depression even makes this worth by changing our biochemistry in a way we start to avoid vivid colours. On the other haps colour therapy is widely used across the mental health workers.

In her paintings, Iryna combines the most vivid hues that nature can produce with the shapes generated by one of the core elements - the sky. Which allows nature to be brought inside the buildings and spaces. As Nature is the most aesthetic of all places (we have originated here), it has the strongest well-being power over human beings.