Valery Babich

The opportunity to travel brings joy to everyone, and for artists, it also provides endless inspiration and new subjects for their work. Being a film producer means finding stories almost everywhere, but bringing them to life requires funding, clients, and collaborators. Painting and drawing are different. All they require is paper, a pencil, paint, and a little time. That is how these works came to be. Some were painted on location, while others were created in the studio, based on my own sketches and photographs. Historical monuments and landmarks from my native Ukraine and other countries, streets and alleyways of different cities, cafés, quiet corners of nature, and sometimes simply stones, leaves, or flowers—all of these naturally find their way into my paintings. Because when you love to draw, you simply draw.

I started drawing at school, studying in a drawing and painting studio.
I studied drawing and painting at the Kharkiv Institute of Design in 1992.
From 2016 to 2018, I studied watercolor with Joseph Zbukvic and Alvaro Castaneta.