ABOUT
My path as an artist began with graphics and watercolors. The main subjects of my earlier works were city landscapes and architecture, mainly of my hometown St. Petersburg. Over time, I stopped feeling connected to industrial and architectural objects and began to search for new artistic forms, a source of inspiration and freer means of expression. Thanks to creative experiments and exploration of my inner world, I was able to establish a connection between the external and internal world and find a way to share my impressions by transferring emotions and thoughts to a material object.
MAIN THEME
I explore the topic of everyday beauty and draw on my personal impressions and emotional experiences. Through my art, I invite the viewer to enjoy simple things, accessible beauty and the life that surrounds us. Flickering and glare from the sun, a blossoming rosebud in the yard, the flapping of a bird's wings. I transfer familiar shapes and abstract images onto canvas, endowed with my impression and emotional state. I mainly focus on the theme of nature and the animal world. Using a combination of colors, textures and animal images, I convey my sense of the world, my impressions and internal states onto the canvas. The viewer can find his own symbolism in my artworks, so I deliberately give fairly simple names to the paintings in order to leave more space for searching for meanings and impressions.
TECHNIQUE
I paint with acrylic and oil in a mixed media and intuitive manner. Some of my works, especially those painted in oil, are similar to the styles of impressionism and pointillism. I also use other materials (gouache, oil pastel, charcoal). I do ceramics and sculpture. Handmade ceramic products allow me to embody my ideas and artistic images in new forms. I continue to experiment, search, and try something new.
EDUCATION
2023 - Handbuilt ceramics and sculpture course, ceramics studio «Biskuit». St. Petersburg, Russia
2021-2023 - Institute of Psychological Counseling «New Age». St. Petersburg, Russia
2009-2014 - Nevsky Institute of Design, graphic design department. St. Petersburg, Russia
2007-2009 - Federal state budgetary educational institution of higher education
«Higher School of Folk Arts (academy)». St. Petersburg, Russia
2000-2004 - School of Arts. Vyborg, Russia
1996-2000 - State Budgetary Institution «Children's Art School «Alexandrino». St. Petersburg, Russia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Solo exhibition. Bloki Art Space, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 - Oil and acrylic painting. Van Goghi, Tbilisi, Georgia
2023 - Watercolor exhibition. La belle verte, St. Petersburg, Russia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Art Fair, St. Petersburg, Russia
2022 - Beriozka gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia