Lilia Kodunova

Lilia Kodunova is a contemporary figurative painter working primarily in oil. Her practice is centred on the human figure as a site where psychological interiority, memory, and social experience intersect. Through restrained figuration and atmospheric intensity, her work addresses states of emotional ambiguity, vulnerability, and endurance.

Born in Ukraine, Lilia trained in drawing and painting at the Academy of Realistic Art in Kyiv (2018–2022) and later completed the Development Year Program at the Royal Drawing School in London (2023–2024). Her relocation to the UK has been a defining shift in her practice, sharpening her focus on displacement, resilience, and the body as a bearer of lived and inherited histories.

Grounded in classical observation yet informed by contemporary sensibility, her paintings employ layered surfaces, subtle disruption of realism, and quiet psychological tension. Now based in Kent, England, Lilia continues to develop a body of work that positions the figure as both witness and archive, reflecting personal experience within a wider context of collective rupture.