the market and docks. On one occasion a local fisherman gave her a bag of octopuses for lunch. She wanted to eat them, but instead had an idea: to use the octopuses to create a sculpture. The gift of food became the TORSO series. Art works and exhibitions Between 2004 and 2010 Zoia had many solo exhibitions across Europe. However, it was the premier exhibition of TORSO in South London's Menier Gallery in 2011, which saw her international career really take off. As well as selling a number of pieces and catching the eye of the local media, the series was featured in influential art magazine Creative Review, which subsequently appeared on newspaper stands all over the world. Nicki Paxman in her review of TORSO for the BBC's Outlook programme said of Zoia's work: "it is clearly a painting of an octopus but Zoia's arranged it in such a way that it looks like a flayed human torso.". In 2015 Zoia was invited by the Stock Exchange Rifle Club to exhibit TORSO at their shooting range. She is the only artist who has created an exhibition there. This marked the artist's third ‘Flash Exhibition.’ The same year she appeared on Ukraine Today talking about her exhibition dedicated to the Nuclear Power accidents in Chernobyl and Fukishima Skoropadenko's Intellectual landscapes series has its roots in impressionism, with the oil paintings depicting minimalistic views that the artist sees on her travels. First sketched in situ and then painted back at the artist's studio, much white ‘flesh’ is left on the canvas so that viewer can fill in the gaps. The Intellectual landscapes series got its first public viewing as a pop up exhibition at the Ukrainian Embassy in Brussels to celebrate Europe Day in 2016. Zoia debuted a new series of work ‘Coffee drinkers’ as a solo exhibition at Ginza contemporary art gallery Art For Thought in Tokyo in November 2016. ‘Coffee drinkers,’ a series of linocuts depicting scenes of everyday life in a random café, took its inspiration partly from the paintings of Degas, Manet, Picasso and Toulouse Lautrec, which portrayed Absinthe drinkers. 2016 closed with Zoia conducting a controversial pop up exhibition in Brussels and very nearly being hospitalised after a horrific fall when hanging her paintings ahead of the event. In February 2017, Zoia embarked on her 'Painting California' live art trail. Based in a beachfront house in Balboa,