Nikolay Malafeev

I was born in 1954 in Rybinsk, upon the Volga river.
In 1967 I went to school of art to the finest artist-teacher Anatoly Popov. He also gave classes in fine arts for young workers. I attended these classes as well. Seven days a week I studied the culture of color, lines and volume. The image of an artist-teacher became my dream.
Art college in Ivanovo made me feel happy with my studies, my classmates as well as my teachers.
The collections of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg museums and other exhibitions demonstrated me the works of foreign and native masters of art. The exhibitions of French impressionists and Van Gogh, taking place in Moscow in 70s, were the most impressive ones.
I realized my dream to become the artist-teacher in 1974. Since then I’ve been working at Rybinsk art school for children. I give studies at Plasticine Sculpture in my own techniques. I try to provide conditions to unveil creativities of early talents.
Personal exhibitions are of higher priority to me, because there’s the opportunity to fully demonstrate my creative work.
The art is always on the verge of the recognizable and unexpected, visible and hidden, real and surreal. To find harmony between these things - is a task of the artist, ...

1967-1970 School of art in Rybinsk
1970-1974 Art college in Ivanovo

Participant of local, regional and international exhibitions and of the fifteen personal exhibitions.
The works are located in museums, art galleries and private collections in Russia, England, France, Belgium, Hungary, USA, Indonesia.