Vitaly Leshukov Soldatov

For me, painting is a way to make sense of life. Canvas and paints help me pause, feel the moment, and express what cannot be said in words. My paintings are personal experiences. Whether I am traveling, walking in nature, or spending time in museums, everything I see and feel settles inside me and sooner or later turns into a painting.

Sometimes my works reflect mixed memories, where different places and impressions are intertwined. For example, the series of paintings “Travels in Provence” was born after a trip to Vaucluse, where endless lavender fields, cypress trees, houses with orange roofs, and mountain rivers and lakes intertwined in my memory with impressions from visiting the Van Gogh Museum. In my paintings, I try to convey not a specific landscape, but a state of mind—the energy and light that remain after an encounter with the world.
I was born in Mirgorod (Ukraine) in 1968 and have been living in Lloret de Mar, Spain, since 2000. I came to painting after a serious accident, after which I spent five days in a coma. This experience changed a lot in me and became the beginning of my journey in art.

I did not receive any academic education—I taught myself everything by observing, trying, and experimenting with materials....

L' Atelier estudi d'Art, Olot, Spain.
Plein-air painting course, academic studio.

EXHIBITIONS:
08.2025 - ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI, A.R.T 2025 (TAIWAN). Competition finalist.
03.2025 -International painting exhibition, Ishinomaki City Cultural Complex (JAPAN)
10.2024 - SOLO SHOW, ART MASHA GALLERY (ANDORRA)
05.2023
Art Revolution Taipei, A.R.T.2022 (TAIWAN) 2023
09.11.2022
ART-FAIR, “BORDEAUX” (FRANCE)
15.09.2022
ART-FAIR, “ART3F-LUXEMBURG ” (LUXEMBURG)
13.08.2022
Art Revolution Taipei, A.R.T.2022 (TAIWAN) 2022
15.09.2022
ART-FAIR, “ART3F-MULHOUSE” (FRANCE)
15.10.2021
15e SALON D’ART CONTEMPORAIN AIX-EN-PROVENCE (FRANCE)
30.09.2021
ART-FAIR, “ART3F-LAUSANNE” (SWITZERLAND)
11.06.2021
ART-FAIR, “ART3F-MULHOUSE” (FRANCE)
2021
Art Revolution Taipei, A.R.T.2021 (TAIWAN)
2020
Art Revolution Taipei, A.R.T.2020 (TAIWAN).
8.10.2020
“WORLD ART DUBAI”, (ARAB EMIRATES)
GROUP SHOW “Landscape museum” PLYOS, (RUSSIA)
29.06.2019
GROUP SHOW “CASICA COOL ART 2019”, MIERES, (SPAIN)
21.04.2019
SOLO SHOW “Farga Diagonal” BARCELONA, (SPAIN)
20.03.2019
SOLO SHOW “Farga Beethoven” BARCELONA, (SPAIN)
5,02,2019
SOLO SHOW, CITY HALL, LLORET DE MAR, (SPAIN)
9.01.2019
“CASICA COOL ART”, “MEX-CAT” BARCELONA, (SPAIN)
23-25.10.2018
“ART FAIR INTERNATIONAL MODERN ART EXHIBITION” BRUSSELS, (BELGIUM)
9.11.2018
“CASA DE LA CULTURA, GROUP SHOW”...