An exhibition "Sunny Palette" by Lutsk resident Valentyna Halkina has opened at the Volyn Museum of Local Lore. All works are made in a unique technique that gives them volume and space, the Western Information Corporation's own correspondent reported on September 2.\n\nA design engineer by education, Valentyna Halkina became interested in this type of folk art through her daughter, who began attending a club at the Palace of Student Youth where they taught how to make straw appliqués.\n\nLater, the craftswoman herself created a new technique with which she managed to give her works volume and convey space. The images of her straw flowers and churches truly impress with their volume and complexity of construction.\n\nWhen it came to defining such a technique in order to present it at the craftswoman's exhibition, Volodymyr Vynnychuk, a methodologist at the Volyn Culture Center, set about searching for something similar in the available scholarly literature, but never found a description of such a technique.\n\nWhether the Lutsk resident is a pioneer in this field requires research into foreign sources. For now, her technique has been called "straw plastics."