Gribachev Yaroslav

Professional artist, print graphic designer, was born in 1972, in the North Caucasus (South Russia). Graduated Moscow Academy of the Printing Arts in 1995. Traveller, "citizen of the world", for almost two years living in Montenegro.

While I've been working as a book print graphic designer for many years my “inner easel artist” have been ripening on. Sooner or later I came to creation of this unique semi-painting semi-graphic pastel & acrylic artworks series.

Always being inspired by “something beyond of outer conventional reality”. And to discover and experience that, I’m travelling a lot, particularly to Asia.

Inspiration is vital, it springs from conscious and subconscious images born of diverse emotional and visual encounters – be they figurative or abstract. Nature's states, luminous light, music, even dreams fuel this inner well. Gradually, this coalesces into form. Essential details and conceptual meaning surface, forging composition – an organized symphony of light, dark, and color. Our depths plumbed hinge on our quest.

The creative process is akin to prayer or yoga. The artist becomes a conduit for energy. The less our intellect intervenes, the purer.

Acrylic, wide-brushed, pastels' glimmer simulate clouds, water, na...

Moscow Academy of the Printing Arts
Printing (Book design) and Graphic Arts faculty, 1995.

Selected exhibitions:

Siddhartha Festival Art Show. Group exhibition.
Bodhgaya, India, 2023

Mystical Geography. Paths of the Blessing. Solo exhibition.
Stavropol, 2014

Spiritual Art Group Exhibition. Elista, 2013

Russian Academy of Arts Group Exhibition.
Rostov-on-Don / Grozny, 2012-2013

Printmaking and sculpture of the North Caucasus.
Group exhibition. Stavropol, 2012

Russian Academy of Arts Group Exhibition. Pyatigorsk, 2010

Young Stavropol Artists Group Exhibition. Elista, 1996

Appealing to the Genre. Vladimir Gribachev & Yaroslav Gribachev. Two artists exhibition.
Stavropol, 1994

Moscow University of Printing Arts (Moscow Academy of the Printing Arts). Student group exhibitions.
Moscow, 1992-1995

Young Artists Group Exhibition. Stavropol, 1992