A pysanka (Ukrainian: писанка) or pysanky (plural: писанки) is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs using a wax-resist method. The word pysanka comes from the verb pysaty, "to write" or "to in scribe", as the designs are not painted on, but written (inscribed) with  beeswax 

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Nestor Topchy is a Houston-based painter, sculptor, installation and performance artist, who learned to write pysanky in childhood, with his mother and paternal family, who immigrated from Stalinist Ukraine as displaced persons following World War II.
Iryna Petrovska Marchiano, PhD is a Ukraine-born proud Houstonian, an engineer and a data analyst by day and an artist-of-all-trades by night, who found her true artistic calling in pysanky writing

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