Her mother Iryna Dmytrivna (née Hryhorovych-Barska) was Ukrainian, and was related to the noted architect Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi.

The year after Halyna Sevruk's birth, the family moved to Kharkiv, the largest city in the northeast region of Ukraine.

She later recalled these years fondly, and noted that the experience shaped her commitment to being a "true artist".

[3] From 1947 to 1949, Sevruk attended the Shevchenko Art School, located in Kyiv, where she studied with Yurii Kyianchenko.

She created monumental ceramic artwork for installation in institutions, such as the Chorne More Hotel in Odesa, and the Khmilnyk Sanatorium.

[3] In the 1970s Sevruk experimented with different materials in her ceramics and continued to draw inspiration from folk elements and fairytales.

She produced a number of paintings with a new artistic manner, many of which were tributes to people in her social circles.

The show was held at the Hryhorii Svitlytskyi Memorial House-Museum, at the home of her old teacher in Kyiv.