I don’t seek perfection.
I listen — and follow where the material leads.
My practice lives in sculptural tactile art — quiet forms shaped by hand, where texture becomes presence.
Love and Be Young is not just a name —
it’s a space where form and stillness become one.
What cannot be said in words
can be felt through a crack, a curve, the trace of a fingertip.
I shape sculptural vases, textured paintings, and objects
in which the material speaks on its own terms.
Paper clay, sand, pigments, starch, bark, cotton —
not simply materials, but carriers of memory.
They breathe, absorb gesture, and hold pause.
Each one holds more than substance — it holds presence.
My forms are biomorphic, tactile, imperfect.
Rather than depict nature, I allow it to be present —
in cracks that echo dry earth,
in lines that recall bark, skin, or breath.
Each piece feels found rather than made.
Not demanded into existence,
but left behind — quietly.
Love and Be Young is not about objects.
It is about presence.
About how art can be alive,
and how silence can speak longer than sound.
— Natalia Tykhoniuk
Artist & Founder of Love and Be Young
