Oleg Baikoff

Taught by my mother the artist Blazenka Baikoff and artist friends.

Early art work involved drawing numerous comic books from an early age (8 to 13) as I read a wide range of Belgian/ French comic books (Herge, Franquin). I invented characters, developed narratives and used ball-point pen on paper as my medium.

Was more formally trained in the 1970's by my mother, the academic artist Blazenka Baikoff, working on traditional academic compositional and tonal aspects of charcoal drawings and poster paintings, concentrating on self-portraits and studies based on the still-lives of Cezanne.

Blazenka inspired me greatly at that time. She had studied at Zagreb and Rome Academies of Art, and worked for her father George Reputine, a society photographer in Zagreb between the two world wars. Her strengths lie in portraits, tonal painting and conceptual sculptures called Androgynes (based on Louis XV furniture transformed and abstracted into large flattened wood and plexiglass forms) which she exhibited in Lausanne, Switzerland, in the 1970's.

Thereafter, I spent eight years in South Africa, soaking in the climate, bright colours and beautiful landscapes. Since my return to the UK, my work has become more contemplative and I have...

Birkbeck College, London University.

January 2006 – Present (9 years 8 months)London, United Kingdom
Christie's, London: Charity Sale 2006
Christie's, London: Charity Sale 2008
Christie's, London: Charity Sale 2010
Gallery 54, Shepherd Market, London: Dawnay family and friends group exhibition 2011
Gallery 54, Shepherd Market, London: Tom Shaw's drawings and Oleg Baikoff's paintings 2012
Gallery 54, Shepherd Market, London: Dawnay family, friends exhibition 2012
Gallery 54, Shepherd Market, London: Dawnay family, friends exhibition 2013
Gallery 54, Shepherd Market, London: Dawnay family, friends exhibition 2014
The Jilted Dog Gallery, Brighton: Where inner and outer worlds meet, March 2015