Roman Khardin

My name is Roman Khardin. I am an artist and educator with more than 13 years of experience teaching painting. My work explores atmosphere, mythology and imagined worlds. I am drawn to landscapes and the feeling of a place: light, water, night, tropical environments, urban and natural scenes that invite the viewer not only to see them, but to experience them.

Another strand of my practice explores mythological figures and fantastical characters. Goddesses, people, animals and imaginary creatures appear in strange, sometimes absurd situations, where the sacred meets the everyday, the monumental meets the playful, and the ancient meets the contemporary.

For me, painting is a way of creating spaces that invite the viewer to enter. I am not interested in giving my works a single, definitive meaning. I would rather leave room for the viewer’s own feelings, imagination and interpretation.