Portrait Painting

I am an artist born in Moscow and it's my home. I work with, oil, watercolor and mosaic. Portraits, landscapes and sometimes genre scenes are the focus of my artistic interests. The heroes of my portraits are imaginary persons, the fruits of my immersion in the creative process, and mirror my inner state or sometimes are its antagonists. I find a lot of inspiration in Medieval, Byzantium, late Egyptian art. Its conventional spiritual language which was to express the inexpressible, visualize the invisible, I transform into modern materials such as watercolor and oil. Morandi and the artists of Ecole de Paris such as Modigliani, Picasso, Matisse, Villon, Bonard had a big impact on my approach. Many of them praised what western world now call "primitive arts" and invented the language of contemporary art. In my landscapes I’m searching for a state of a gorgeous moment, understatement and aesthetic of a pause between the depicted objects which creates the very tension and uniqueness of the moment.