IM Painting

I was born in Saint-Petersburg and spent my childhood in both art circles and attending art schools. After graduating from Freu Waldorschule private school in Germany I enrolled at the University of Culture and Art where I studied at the faculty of Media Design for a period of 5 five years. At the same time, I worked as a Graphic Designer and developed my passion for music production. I am one of a few Russian artists who contributed a lot of my time to graffiti in the late 90’s and was certainly well known for both my unique style and underground alias. It’s safe to say that I am one of the best artists to come out of Russia with much of my work represented in various books and magazines. A fine example of this would be the 2004 publication ‘Graffiti World’ by Micholas Ganz. Soon after, I started producing music and became well known for this. It’s true to say that I spent more time touring than staying at home which I am thankful for. Drawing sometimes took second place however, during the recent pandemic I picked up my brushes, paints and canvases to create unique pieces of artwork. For 9 months I honed my techniques and remembered many lessons of sketching and paintings from my days at University. I soon realised that I didn’t have enough room for my every growing art collection and decided to rent studio space. Now that I have a space of my own, I constantly draw and feature a lot of my work on Instagram. .art I certainly didn’t give up on music, I merely found some space for art. My style is abstract with roots of street art and graffiti.