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Blooming Paper Whites,
Complimenting the rising sun,
Flapping its wings outside,
The butterfly has some fun.

The first to come in spring,
With its dainty, delicate look,
The look turns out to be deceiving,
Enduring hardships, mistaken for cuddling up in nook.

The insect and flower alike,
One protruding among others in the Coastal Range,
Another taking the first step,
Stand out in the race for innovation and change.

(Poem by my son Peter Nenyuk)

Svitozar Nenyuk is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting angels, saints, and martyrs, and for his portraits. Svitozar was born in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine. Soon after his birth, instead of a toy his father gave him a brush. He began painting and has continued doing art ever since. When he was eleven, he enrolled at the Kyiv Republican Art School. There he studied for seven years from 1973 to1980. After that he studied briefly at the Odessa Art School in 1980- 1981. He then moved to Lithuania. He went to Vilnius in 1981 and was shortly admitted to the State Lithuanian Art Academy as a student. Six years after, in 1987 Svitozar was graduated from the Lithuanian Art Academy. In 1987- 89 he did work as an art...