Medieval Fantasy Painting

Born in 1976 in Izhevsk town (Russia)Now live and work in Moscow ."Creative work for me is an attempt to find answers to eternal questions of human existence... And turning to deserving and strong Personalities of the past and modern age - such as St. Metropolitan Peter of Moscow or Peter I, the Emperor of Russia and others - comes from the desire, by the examples of their lives, to get somewhat nearer to this Goal. The landscape genre is interesting to me in a different way - through vivid impressions which are most often born in trips, and then these impressions simply call to be embodied on canvas. Examples of this are a number of landscapes of the Crimea or my series "Impressions from New-York", - the city, which struck me by a combination of magnificent architecture and as if intact nature. When a painting is yet at the concept stage I try to see it at once in a frame - which for me is part of the general concept - and must help bring out the image... That is exactly why for most of my paintings I invent original frames, which may be seen on the "Portrait of Evgeniya Smolyaninova", "Portrait of the Metropolitan Peter of Moscow" or on the series of landscapes of New-York...