Since 2012, she has been creating a series of industrial landscapes. In 2014, she painted at the Electro Metallurgical Plant “Dneprospetsstal”. At the end of which more than 20 oil sketches from the hot workshop were painted. Based on the results of the practice, the bachelor diploma painting “Portrait of Stalevar” 140*175 was created, which won the “painting department award”. This work is now in the collection of the Museum of the Dneprospetsstal plant in the hall of “Recent History of the Plant”. During studying she painted the village Konceba in the Odessa region. Her second diploma is called “Warm Memories”. This painting is devoted to the theme of” family”, using sketches brought from the village. In 2015, he graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy with honors and moved to his hometown.

 In 2016, she was one of the masterminds of the Drawing Studio, created by the Zaporizhia Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, to develop the portrait genre. In 2017, she opened her painting studio “V-ART”. From 2018-2019, she worked at the Zaporizhia Electrical Engineering College as a teacher of painting, drawing, composition, color science, and other disciplines in the specialty “Design”.

Since 2017, she has been taking part in international Plein air events in Poland and Lithuania. In 2020, she took part in the anti-virus online exhibition in Wuhan. In 2020, during the quarantine. She has started work on the project “Sunflowers by Vira Ustianska ”. But at the end of this year, she showed a series of works with sunflowers at an exhibition at the National Museum of Art in Zaporizhzhia. In 2021, she took part in the international Plein Air ”The Best Artist”, where she received the medal “For Artistic Achievement”.

In 2022, together with her daughter, she is evacuating to Poland. There she took part in public exhibitions in the cities of Millets and Rzeszów. Also in exhibitions and auctions in Warsaw, London, Slovakia. Together with her 7-year-old daughter Vasylisa, she took part in the international carving and painting Plein air “Lancut 2022”.In six months, with the support of the American School in Warsaw and the Polish Wozniak family, more than 100 paintings of the “Polish period” were created. 

 On August 24, 2022, Vira Ustianska, together with her daughter Vasylisa Tkach, arrived in the USA, where she continued to create new paintings. First months she taught painting at the “Ukrainian School in San Diego”. But now she has chosen the dominant direction of activity – the creation of new series of art. 

Inspired by the Paradise nature of California, the artist has begun a new big series with Local landscapes. Mountains and Lakes, Seascapes and Boats, Landmark and Cityscapes became a new big project on a new land. But despite all the delight from the beauty around her, Vira’s heart remains on Ukrainian soil. So, the very important connection with her roots is the “1000 Sunflowers” Project. Working in this direction Vira Ustianska continues her life’s work – the transformation of emotions to history. Today she has almost 200 Sunflower paintings, and each one has a completely different story about nowadays, but decades later, these stories will be converted to the Big History.

A subtle sense of color and burning brushstrokes join together and create a symbiosis of realism and impressionism, breathing life into every picture. On the new land, she retains a love for traditional still life which is still the dominant genre in her work.  Some compositions tell us about momentary feelings of delight and joy, and we can feel like children for a moment. As if in childhood, we can watch how the sunbeams play merrily. And just as sincerely enjoy the beauty of ordinary things around us. Floral still lifes are the remaining moments of a yesterday that is running away forever. A favorite flower, carefully grown in the garden, has finally bloomed on canvas and it’s like magic to view and admire this moment day after day. “A simple vase in the rays of the setting sun is now more precious to me than all earthly blessings because it reminds me of a warm evening spent with my family, in those days when there was no war yet,” says the artist. Also, today, when working on new projects, I try to preserve important memories, which sometimes simply dissolve in the information noise of today.

Tasty miniatures are one of the artist’s favorite areas, where she, inspired by the European traditions of realism, creates living paintings, real masterpieces that vibrate with color and evoke an appetite for life. Vira Ustinskaa’s still lifes are different. If you take 3 different paintings by chance, you might sometimes think that they are the works of different artists. Each painting has its own unique emotion and task. For example, in miniatures, the artist preserves an accurate realistic image, in mood paintings – an elusive emotion, in large still lifes – a celebration of life. Just as every new day brings us something new, the paintings of Vira Ustianska tell us different stories, which is why these paintings are so different. Watching this, one can only admire the author’s skill.

Vira Ustianska feels сonvinient in various genres. She actively participates in local exhibitions, writes stories about her paintings, conducts plein-air demonstrations, and works on commissions. In his commissions, she remains true to the fundamental traditions of oil painting, creating a true work of art in each commission. In the USA, Vira continues to study art, in museums, books, and analyzing nature. Here it can be noted that, having previously been a more illustrative genre for her, animal portraits reach a new level. And you can already trace the formation of a new series of works.

For 9 years now, Vira Ustianska has been working on one of the most important series – portraits of her daughter Vasilisa, traditionally creating a new portrait every year, the artist shows the stages of growing up of the person most dear to her. Creating portraits for an artist remains a valuable genre, it is like an internal dialogue with loved ones.