"Pool" Painting

Andrey Verkhovtsev(アンドレイ・ヴェルホフツェフ)
I currently live and work in Japan.
I am a painter, graphic artist, and photographer.
My portfolio presents a world that took shape after I moved to Japan in 2011.
I am deeply engaged in the work, exploration, and visualization of female physicality within today's high-tech world. I create my paintings in a style that is characteristically my own—a blend of realism and surrealism—rooted in the classical academic training I received at the I.E. Repin Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Most of my works are based on my own original photography. My process begins with photographing a model, creating an image that serves as a sketch for the future painting. During the shoot, I conceive the narrative, seek out specific angles, and work with light, mood, atmosphere, and the model's persona.
Drawing upon this intimate digital source material, I transition to the canvas, creating works that range from black-and-white compositions to pieces vibrant with color, light, and life.
My paintings inhabit a world of erotic, realistic, and divine female figures—images I have created and expressed through my own unique, sensual, and artistic language.
Into these works, I pour my own meaning, feelings, emotions, personal experiences, and a passion for beauty.