The Joy of Cats Painting

My affair with Art started in the city of Art and Imagination, St. Petersburg, Russia. The Art in St. Petersburg was everywhere, in the great museums and in the beautiful architecture and even in the rebellious spirit of my artist friends. They introduced me to the underground art movement that was opposed to the official "social realism" of the late Soviet era. They organized their shows in secret, obscure places. That art shows usually gathered a huge crowd of rebellious youth. At the end of my college years, I began attending the Evening School of Mukhin Institute of Art and Design...From time to time I showed my artwork at the Ekaterina the Great Art Fair near Nevsky Prospect, where art lovers from Germany and England acquired some of my paintings. In 1993 I moved to Seattle to study at UW molecular biology at Biochemistry department of UW. I continued my fascination with art and while being a Ph.D. student at UW; I took many Printmaking classes from the UW Art department. After earning my Ph.D. degree I worked as a researcher at different companies in the biotech industry. At 2012 my unfinished dialog with art became very loud and I decided to continue it at Mark O’Higgins atelier program at Gage Academy of Art, Seattle. Since that time I am actively participating in the art venues of American North West. I found a real inspiration in the "ala prima" oil painting of landscapes, as well as re-created, intuitive and graphical work with the acrylic medium.