Babynin Valerii

My name Valeriy Babynin, I was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He began studying fine arts from his childhood. Graduated from the Odessa M. B. Grekov State Art School where he studied at the Painting Department (previously, Painting and Drawing Education Department). At various times he worked as decorator at the Odessa Opera House, as artist at the Odessa Motion Picture Studio, as master of monumental works at the Odessa Arts Foundation (glass painting, mosaic); ran his own glass painting production and decorative glasswork business.

Whatever I do in my life, I cannot abandon painting in which I was schooled from my childhood. It has merged in my soul with Odessa, the people, the life itself and has be-come part of my inner being. Long ago, when I was young, these lines came into my mind:

Leave me alone, oh my sorrows,
Quit my mind, oh daring dreams, -
Heaven has wedded me today
To the mysterious essence of Beauty.

And I am standing, too awed to be able to move,
Regretting that death is too distant,
Unable to shout, or fall, or look back, -
I am in the heavenlies - too high.

Echoes of this revelation resound in my heart even to this day. Sometimes, quite unexpectedly, as I am passing by some familiar places, I am, as it were, ...

Odessa M. B. Grekov State Art School

many different exhibitions