Genovese coast at night Painting

I'm a graduate of the Moscow State Linguistic University, PhD in linguistics, CAE (grade A). I took up painting in 2013 because I really felt a strong urge to paint and though I didn't have any formal artisitic education at that point I dared to try it. I took private lessons from professional artists and went to art classes in an art studio but I'm basically a self-taught artist. Over the last 7 years I have created over 180 works mainly in oil, several in watercolours and pastel pencil. I have had 8 solo exhibitions in Moscow and have sold over 20 pictures. Some of them are now in private collections in Austria, the USA, Spain, the Ukraine, Cyprus and Latvia.