Ukranian hamlet in winter Painting

Alexander Koval was born April 9, 1974 in the city of Lipetsk. Link to the visual arts woke him in the early childhood - happy pencil drawing, and it happened and pen on paper house and garden of his grandmother, who now lives and at Voronezh, and did other drawings. Since Alexander's father was military, it would have had to change their place of residence: Central Russia, the Urals, Siberia, Kamchatka, Lithuania, Grozny, Mongolia. Picturesque corners of the places where he lived and where he went (to Poland and Turkey), the artist, over the years appear on his canvases. Subjects creativity Alexander Koval no less wide than the geography of its living areas: fields, forests, trees, parks, Russian log hut, hut Ukrainian, monuments, river banks, sea views ... Each season in their own nature endows beauty. And the artist sings the beauty of a brush and paints. You can find among his works and still lifes. And once I passed through the streets of the Soviet Kamchatka resident who was visiting relatives in Nikolaev, and stopping at the pictures of Alexander Koval, found on one of them the hill of his native land. At the edge of the volcano the artist spent a period of his life, which is called "adolescence". Let passed since many years, he was able to authentically depict what he saw even in his early years. And it is - not the only case. Of course, he could not Nicholas artist Alexander Koval did not sing the beauty of the steppe and the Black Sea region, which was native to him. He first arrived in Nikolaev, when he was seven years old. But not for long. Circumstances were such that the peninsula between the Bug and Ingul had Preseli Peninsula, located between the Sea of ​​Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean. However, in 1989 by the will of fate, he was back in the city of Saint Nicholas. There he studied at the skill of Honored Artist of Ukraine Mikhail Ryasnyansky and before arriving here - Honoured Artist of the USSR Eduard Gagarin. And even before it went on to study the well-known to our fellow countryman, the young painter depicted on his canvases All Saints Church, which is located in the old cemetery of the city of Nikolaev, Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the street Lyagina, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Joseph in the Decembrists' Street. Not once portrayed in paintings and domed building, located at the intersection of Lenin Avenue and the streets of the Soviet.