On October 5, 2021, the presentation of a personal exhibition of the works of the well-known Odesa artist, Honored Artist of Ukraine Nataliya Martyniuk "Graphic compositions" and a catalog as part of the museum art project for the Day of the Artist "In the Artist's Workshop" was held in the O.O. Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum, which has aims to popularize the work of Ukrainian artists and provides for holding personal exhibitions and publishing catalogs with interviews - artists' reflections on art and life, reproductions of works that vividly reflect their creative pursuits.
    Nataliya Oleksandrivna Martyniuk (born 1946) - Honored Artist of Ukraine (2021), member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1982). She graduated from the Odesa Art School named after M.B. Grekov, now VNKZ "M.B. Grekov Odesa Art College", painting department (1967) and Leningrad Higher Art and Industrial School named after V. I. Mukhina, now the St. Petersburg State Art and Industrial Academy named after A.L. Shtiglits, faculty of "interior and equipment" (1973). She worked as an artist in the graphic shop of the Odesa Art and Production Combine of the Art Fund of the Ukrainian SSR and senior teacher of special disciplines at the Odesa Art School named after M. B. Grekova. He works creatively in drawing, watercolor and oil painting techniques. Participant of city, regional, republican, all-Ukrainian, all-Union, international and foreign art exhibitions. Has numerous personal exhibitions. Her creative works, written in the original author's manner of drawing, are unique examples of modern Ukrainian graphic art and adorn the collections of the Directorate of Exhibitions of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (Kyiv), the Odessa Art Museum, and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
    The exposition of the presented exhibition consists of more than twenty graphic works of Natalia Martyniuk from the 1970s - 2010s, donated by the author to the museum funds in 2020. These are landscapes, still lives, portraits, genre compositions. There are many works among them made with a graphite pencil, which impress with the rich emotional energy of strokes on large surfaces. The large format of graphic sheets is a unique feature of the artist's artistic handwriting.
    And although Nataliya Oleksandrivna was unable to attend the opening of the exhibition in person due to quarantine restrictions, all those present were pleased to view the photo presentation of the artist’s creative and pedagogical chronicle prepared by the museum and the video film “Until she left…” about the impromptu exhibition of still life painting in the workshop, organized in 2013 year by Odessa artists, among whom was Nataliya Martyniuk.
    The associate professor of the Department of Art Education, Faculty of Pedagogy, Psychology and Arts of the Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after of Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Candidate of Art History, Olena Kyrychenko, and the compiler of the catalog "Graphic Compositions of Nataliya Martynyuk", the museum's leading researcher, Honored Artist of Ukraine Andriy Nadezhdin.
    The opening of the exhibition was attended by students of the 2nd year of the faculty of pedagogy, psychology and arts of the Central State University named after V. Vynnychenko headed by senior teacher Larisa Kulinich. Young artists, after viewing the exhibition, expressed a desire to set up art studios in the museum to try to make a drawing with a graphite pencil in the manner of the Honored Artist of Ukraine Nataliya Martyniuk, whose works fascinate with the rhythm of strokes and make us think about the meaning of art in our lives.