Pearl of the Volga Painting

Born in 1967. Graduated from the Art School. Late 1980s, early 1990s created artwork for interiors, portraits, street advertising, participated in city exhibitions and fairs. Since the mid-1990s in graphic design in the field of trademark development, trademarks, logos, posters, print design, managed its design studio specializing in creating logos and corporate identity, poster design, labels, packaging. Activities in the field of advertising and graphic design aroused interest in contemporary art, and since 2010 he has tried himself in different styles and mediums. In 2011, he began participating in art exhibitions. Since 2014, she has been focusing on painting portraits using acrylic technique. In 2017, a personal exhibition was held as a portrait artist, “Renaissance in manner of stroke" as part of the Victoria Gallery triennial. In 2019, one of the four participants and organizer of the exhibition “Quadriga” in the gallery “New Space”, 15 new works were presented, mostly portraits. In 2020, he participates in four exhibitions in Samara, Tolyatti and Rome. Presents in his works at the exhibition “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” genre of realistic modern portrait at the intersection with poster. In 2021 he acts as one of the curators of the project “Signs, Symbols and Myths”, exhibition which features 70 artists and takes place in four cities. In 2022, he will participate in six group exhibitions, including the Interregional academic research project of the Russian Academy of Arts and the Creative Union of Artists of Russia “Red Gate” / “Against the Current”. In 2023, Pavel participates in two exhibitions and joins the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. In the paintings of Pavel Pashkin, a modern interpretation of the portrait can be traced, one can feel smooth transition from realism to posterity and non-objective for actual sound painting in the digital age.