Peonies Painting

I was born in the former USSR in Minsk (now the capital of Belarus) in 1986 in an engineers family. I spent my childhood and youth there, but at the age of 19, due to political persecution by the regime of the Belarusian dictator Lukashenka, I was forced to leave for Poland, where I currently live. I have been involved in fine arts all my life since early childhood. My grandfather, an architect, taught me the basics of drawing and perspective, and then I liked it so much that I could never stop. When I was 10 years old I received my first income because I sold my own painting for the first time. It was a small kitchen still life with apples, plums, lemon and grapes. Over the next few years, I diligently copied the luxurious still lifes of Dutch artists of the 17th century from collection of Hermitage in St.Petersburg, studying the technology and all the intricacies of the craft. At the same time, I became interested in portraiture, thanks to a meeting with an outstanding artist, Mikhail Shabalin, who later became my mentor. At the age of 16, I was already regularly drawing portraits of passers-by in the Children's Central Park named after M. Gorky in Minsk. Gradually, cartoons and caricatures were added to the portraits. After moving to Poland in the summer of 2006, I did not engage in creativity for some time, as I needed to settle down and continue my studies at the university. I lived in Warsaw for some time, and then fate brought me to Lublin, and then to Kazimierz Dolny - a real “Mecca of artists”, where creators from all over the country and beyond flocked. There I met entire families of hereditary artists with whom we are friends to this day. Now I work mainly on commission in the genre of caricatures and less often portraits. Sometimes I paint small works of a sketch nature for my own pleasure. Many of my works are located in private collections in Poland and all over the world. More details about order and prices on my website. (I apologize that the English version is not ready yet, but you can always translate the pages using Google).