BNI Art Studio

About the business

B&I Art Studio paints Ukrainian folk ornament onto small everyday objects — glass Christmas baubles, flat wooden figures, little wooden boxes and greeting cards.

The studio sums itself up in one line, the same on both of its pages: “B&I Art Studio: Custom & Collections. Quality, Family-Run. Explore Our Art!” Its Facebook cover carries a second line: “Timeless traditions in new sophisticated forms.”

The tradition is named by the studio itself. A reel showing a hand-painted Christmas card is tagged #handmade #petrykivkapainting #christmascardideas. Petrykivka painting is a Ukrainian decorative style from the settlement of Petrykivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, built on flower patterns and its own brush technique; UNESCO added it to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013.

Most of the studio's photographs are one subject done many ways: a single glass bauble hung on a cedar branch in daylight, painted with a sunflower, a red poppy, blue cornflowers or a whole garland of them, on clear, white, black and gold glass.

One photograph is taken at a market table. Wire racks hold rows of baubles and flat wooden ornaments cut as cats, a cow, a goat, a hare, an owl, a fox, birds and fish, each on a red ribbon. In front of them stand open wooden boxes with glass lids and painted floral borders, an ornament resting inside each on wood wool, and a small card with the studio's logo lies on the cloth.

The Facebook page opened on 11 October 2023. B&I Art Studio was an art-studio vendor at UAFest in 2024. On 9 April 2025 it posted “This Sunday we are going to be in Halifax!” and pointed at the Ukrainian Easter Market — an East Coast Ukrainian Association event held at the Alderney Landing Farmers' Market in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on Sunday 13 April 2025 — having shared that association's own post of 3 April. The studio publishes no address, telephone or website, and the Facebook Shop link its Instagram bio points to no longer opens, so anything you want from it is arranged in a message on Facebook or Instagram.