In the premises of the Art Museum (a department of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore) at 1a Kafedralna Street (Lutsk Castle), an exhibition of works by the Volyn artist and former head of the Art Museum Mykola Ivanovych Chereniuk (1945-2001) titled "A Knight of the Artistic Palette of Volyn" is on display. Visitors are presented with 68 paintings created by the artist from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s. This is the first personal exhibition of M. Chereniuk's works, unfortunately, posthumous. Chereniuk M.I. was born on November 7, 1945, in the village of Zamlynnia, Liuboml district. He graduated from the art school in Lutsk. Back in 1957, the boy's works and documents were sent to the Republican Secondary Art School named after T. Shevchenko in Kyiv, he was enrolled as a student, but life circumstances turned out such that he could not go to study. He studied at the journalism faculty of the Lviv Polygraphic Institute (1964-1973), later obtained the profession of graphic artist at the same institution (1976-1982). Out of the 55 years he lived, fate granted him a little more than 20 for creativity. M.I. Chereniuk was a landscape painter, author of still lifes and portraits, executed mainly in oil. Landscape always attracted the artist. He has architectural views, imbued with a poetic mood, painted in a contemplative manner. He loved to paint Lutsk Castle at any time of year; the streets and corners of the ancient city had a magnetic pull for him. His images of nature are mysteriously agitated, with energetic and free brushstrokes ("Forest Lake", "Autumn River", "Waiting for Autumn"). A fine sense of color, intuition in solving composition can be traced in the construction of his intimate landscapes and still lifes. And he also loved to paint flowers, sought in them calm and inspiration ("Irises", "Bouquets of Flowers on a Chair", "Autumn Flowers", "Still Life with Guelder-Rose"). Careful study of nature and work en plein air influenced Chereniuk's painterly manner. His artistic language with each new painting becomes more perfect, alive, more masterful ("Together with the City", "The Church of the Nineties"). The paintings "Landscape Motif of Late Autumn", "Spring. High Water" reveal his fine understanding of color. Chereniuk's mastery as a portraitist impresses with its maturity in the "Portrait of the Artist Hryhorii Chornoknyzhny" (1984). It testifies to the author's considerable talent and great creative potential. His portraits are distinguished by deep psychological characterization; he was able not only to convey a person's appearance but also to reveal their character, inner, spiritual world. In the artist's creative legacy there is a whole gallery of portraits: his parents, wife, sons Roman and Yaroslav, colleagues, museum workers ("Portrait of Serafyma Skrypnyk" (1985), artists Ivan Boiko (1975), Karel Yakubek (1984), historian Petro Tronevych, poet and scholar Fedir Stepaniuk, self-portraits. The years 1990-98 were the most productive in M.I. Chereniuk's creativity: he hurried to create, as if sensing that life was approaching its final limit. He left behind more than a hundred paintings, two dozen of which are preserved in the funds of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore.