The Fifth Element Painting

Painting is my passion and very important part of my life. I cannot imagine one day without my studio, even if I just go there and stare at my work, thinking about it. Most familiar theme in my paintings is people in many ways. Sometimes, when I'm working on my nudes, I just think how people in isolation feel: in state of self-reflection, and most intimate feeling. Speaking of those paintings, I like to say that they are "Naked portraits"-psychological portraits of a person when she/he is all alone, when she's naked as truth. Totally opposite from that, I put people in crowd, where they are trying to be persons they wanted to be - persons other people will like more. I try to show those two kinds of feelings, human mood and philosophy with different type of painting portraits, characters and atmosphere.