She continued her studies at the Palace of Children's Creativity under Elizabeth Piskorska, a student of Fedir Krichevsky and Mykhailo Boychuk.

[3] From 1944 to 1949, Zubchenko attended the Republican Art School, where she took painting and drawing lessons from Vladimir Bondarenko, another disciple of Fedir Krichevsky.

[4] In the summer of 1956, Zubchenko went to Lemkivshchyna, a region in the lowest part of the Carpathian Mountains, to practise en plein air painting.

[5] She became keenly interested in the customs of the local Hutsul community; drawing inspiration from their everyday life, she set to make studies and sketches that would become the base for her painting Arkan,[6] completed later that year.

There she painted various portraits and landscapes, including A Girl from the Village of Richka, Willows, Without a Musician There Would Not Be a Fest, and Where the Mountain Bears Live.

[8] The Kyiv State Art Institute staff found the painting overly nationalistic and compelled Zubchenko to modify it.

[10] In 1962, Zubchenko joined the Club of Creative Youth (Клуб творчої молоді), a multidisciplinary group founded by Les Tanyuk in 1959 and dedicated to promoting the Ukrainian culture.

[11] She and other artist friends – Alla Gorska, Nadiya Svitlychna, Victor Zaretsky, Halyna Sevruk[12] and Lyudmila Semykina – created a division specialising in visual arts, directed by Veniamin Kushnir.

[18] Participated in the creation of the following monumental and decorative panels: "Space",[19] "Elements of water",[19] "Fire",[20] "Earth",[20] "Miner's Edge" ("Prometheus"),[21] "Wind and Willow",[22] "Sun",[22] "Subsoil",[23] "Animal World".

The couple worked together for ten years on the decoration of several public buildings in Mariupol and Kyiv – in particular, the institutes of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.