"Rising" Painting

Stas Smotr was born in 1996 in Ukraine. Near the famous city of Lviv, which is famous for its architecture and Ukrainian authenticity. Stas is an artist in the third generation, and therefore from an early age he was actively involved in this craft. Already in primary school, he began to attend private lessons with famous masters of the academic school, after which he entered the art school of Rivne and after graduation he entered the Kiev Iconography School of PMDS with a red diploma. For three years he studied the basics of ancient icon painting, which have been preserved to this day since the sixth century.

Upon completion of his studies, he entered the Komsomol Higher Iconography Institution at the Faculty of "Iconography and Restoration" in order to further improve his level of writing.

After studying, Stas worked for three years as a designer at the largest children's clothing factory in Ukraine, where he created collections of prints for clothes.

Three years later, Stas and his friend created their own smotr_studio gallery, where he oversaw the work of more than 20 professional masters. The studio smotr_studio very quickly gained popularity in Ukraine due to the high level of writing and gradually the paintings began to be ordered abroad. This studio works and thrives in Ukraine, despite the heavy burden of war, the studio creates new and stunning paintings that are increasingly bought all over the world.

Now Stas is forced to stay and write in Spain and in this regard is very bored and feels an urgent need to show on the canvas the beauty of the Ukrainian land of its Cossack spirit, the places and feelings that he experienced as a child while at his grandmother's village and those memories that warm his soul.

Do not look for realism or super detail in his works, he wants to show beauty in a simple way, but so that you can feel with him a piece of the warmth of which the Ukrainian land and its people are rich.

Each picture is primarily a state, a state of morning coolness and fog that quietly lay over the water, a state of a warm evening that caresses the eye in the rays of sunset with its colors, a state of frosty Christmas morning and soft snow that creaks under your feet. Feel this state and allow yourself to mentally penetrate the heart of the canvas.