Born in 1954. Ukrainian icon painter, volunteer, artist, restorer, researcher of sacred art. His work combines the revival of ancient traditions of Ukrainian icon painting with innovative techniques. He is known for using shingles from Drohobych churches to create modern icons. Founder of the creative association “Cactus”. Until 2013, he was a teacher at the Lviv National Academy of Arts. In his work, the artist emphasizes the importance of “drawing with the heart” as a key principle in Ukrainian icon painting. In addition, Lev Skop is actively involved in volunteering: he creates icons that are transferred to the front or are auctioned off at charity auctions in support of the defenders of Ukraine.

Author of a significant number of individual icons, iconostases and paintings in churches. The most famous is the iconostasis and a cycle of icons for the Cathedral of Archangel Michael – Pantheon of Ukrainian Heroes in the village of Novoshychi, Drohobych district

Author of a number of articles and monographs on the topic of Ukrainian sacred art. In particular, “Painter of the Icon “Theotokos Hodegetria” from Mrazhnytsia” (2004), “Master of Miniatures of the Peresopnytsia Gospel – Fedusko, Painter from Sambor” (2011), Dating of Galician Icons of the 14th-16th Centuries. Essays on the Methodology of Attribution of Ukrainian Church Painting (2017).

M. Skop