Betelgeuse Painting

My name is Dmitry Vladimirovich Ivantsov. I was born on 25 March 1981 in the city of Tambov. Who am I, you ask? Good question. I've been asking myself this question for years. Most likely, I can be described as a controversial person. On the one hand, I fulfilled the basic requirements of society - for many years I go to work, pay taxes, got married, gave birth to a son, in general, I am like many people, but something inside me requires more.Throughout my life, I am constantly in some kind of struggle. At the age of 14, I was diagnosed with a heart defect and banned physical activity, but by that time I was living football and just couldn't stop. Daily loads helped me to develop physically, I won a lot of games at a good amateur level. Last year, at the age of 39, playing against 18-year-olds, I won two competitions at the amateur level in the Tambov region, although I already knew that surgery could not be avoided, in the coming years I should change the valve in my heart.More and more often I think about what I will leave behind. As a child, I really liked to write pictures on military subjects, this served as my admission to the children's art school, where I studied from 1991 to 1995. Despite the fact that I was offered to enter the Penza School, I refused, at the age of 14 it is difficult to think about it...For many years I wanted to do creative work, but the circumstances were different. The turning point was 2020, when one of the ordinary days I took out a box of oil paints and began to randomly apply strokes. I felt an incredible energy, as if the hand itself left strokes on the canvas, at that moment I realized that what was inside me broke out.