Lilia Varetsa started her professional education in visual arts at art school in Kharkov, Ukraine , graduated Academy of Fine Art in Kharkov and was granted official membership of Artist Alliance of Ukraine .Lilia has won a number of National art prizes.Her artworks are in permanent collections at National and Regional Museums in Ukraine and Belarus.From 1991 to 1995 Lilia exhibit her artworks in Europe. In 1996 , Lilia immigrated to Sydney , Australia.In 2006 Lilia and her husband artist Valentin Varetsa moved to Melbourne, and now live and work in Melbourne, Australia. Lilia draw from memory,using watercolor and acrylic.Color is very important to her,it is the subject matter of her painting.She believe: "The true artist does not create what exist in nature , nature serves him only as a key to organ in his soul".
