Veronika Bondarenko is a Toronto-based painter completing her BFA in Drawing & Painting at OCAD University. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she builds layered, chromatically charged surfaces through glazing, abrasion, concealment, and revision.Her thesis body of work, Threshold, develops abstraction as a material and perceptual language for atmosphere, embodiment, psychology, and symbolic structure. Across the paintings, forms hover between shell, seed, vessel, current, body, landscape, diagram, and interior space, remaining open without becoming vague.Drawing on pattern systems, Ukrainian cosmology, phenomenology, and studio research, Bondarenko treats ambiguity as a precise material condition. Her work locates clarity in relation, duration, surface, and embodied looking.