Don Quixote Blurred Print

I am a London based professional artist painter, born in Russia in 1972 and I discovered my love for oil painting in 2009 and became a professional artist shortly after attending art college in 2010. In 2015 I joined the Moscow Union of Professional Artists and worked in one of the oldest art schools in Moscow (Moscow Creative and Art Studio), where I conducted Master Classes. I also spent a couple of years in Turkiye, where I focused on Art Therapy based Master Classes and Plein Air Landscape painting. In 2021, I moved to the UK from where I obtained a Certificate in Art Therapy and I have been painting in different locations around London and also continued teaching individuals the techniques of Impressionist oil paintings. My original works are in private collections all over the world, including the UK, Malaysia, Germany, Canada, China, Portugal, and Sweden. I have always gravitated towards Impressionism with its vivid colours and I am particularly fascinated by the rendering of light in a lot of these works, especially by Renoir and Monet. The combination of light, vibrant colours and the resulting emotions that these canvases convey is what made me wanting to focus on this particular art expression. A lot of my works are created “plein air” (outdoor landscape painting), just like by the old Impressionist Masters. Only in nature can I focus on the ever changing light and shadow and paint against the clock with bold and emotional brush strokes.