Happiness Painting

My work is inspired by the ancient art of Orthodox icons reinterpreted in a contemporary way. I create abstract icons to access the deeper reality of the universe. The object of my art is the world of ideas - supernatural, eternal, infinite - and its relationship with the terrestrial world. My research has been dedicated to the relationship of the visible-invisible, the divine-human since the day I lived a mystical experience. In my work I use ancient techniques of the icons together with contemporary techniques. With pigments, photographs, tree bark, sand I represent the immanent world, with gold I describe the spiritual and transcendent world. Since adolescence, art has been a great passion of mine together with philosophy, theology and psychology. I have Russian origins and grew up in St. Petersburg. In 2006 I graduated in psychology and in 2011 I moved to Italy. I graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 2014 I specialized in Monumental Painting at the Repin University of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. In 2016, I started attending the Byzantine iconology and iconography course at the International Association of Art and Spirituality Byzarticon in Rome, where I acquired the ancient techniques of icon painting and gilding.