Since 1935 she studied at the Kyiv State Institute of Art under the modernist Ukrainian painter Fedir Krychevsky and launched upon her artistic career after graduating.

Her natural gift for the spontaneous perception of life, her ability to reflect it lyrically, and, finally, her great pictorial skill served to place Yablonskaya in the forefront of Soviet art.

The mounds of golden grain, the flushed and smiling faces of collective farmers, the sunlight permeating the whole scene - this captured the mood of the whole country, communicating the general optimism and zest for work in the post-war years.

Her last work shows that the philosophical tendency in her paintings comes to the fore, while her style is undergoing a certain transformation, assuming a more laconic and restrained character.

Tetyana Yablonska worked very productively until the very end of her life, reportedly painting her last pastel etude on the very day of her death in Kyiv on June 17, 2005.