Viktor Pinchuk

I was born in the former USSR in Minsk (now the capital of Belarus) in 1986 in an engineers family. I spent my childhood and youth there, but at the age of 19, due to political persecution by the regime of the Belarusian dictator Lukashenka, I was forced to leave for Poland, where I currently live.
I have been involved in fine arts all my life since early childhood. My grandfather, an architect, taught me the basics of drawing and perspective, and then I liked it so much that I could never stop.
When I was 10 years old I received my first income because I sold my own painting for the first time. It was a small kitchen still life with apples, plums, lemon and grapes.
Over the next few years, I diligently copied the luxurious still lifes of Dutch artists of the 17th century from collection of Hermitage in St.Petersburg, studying the technology and all the intricacies of the craft. At the same time, I became interested in portraiture, thanks to a meeting with an outstanding artist, Mikhail Shabalin, who later became my mentor.
At the age of 16, I was already regularly drawing portraits of passers-by in the Children's Central Park named after M. Gorky in Minsk. Gradually, cartoons and caricatures were added to the port...

I started doing athletic gymnastics at the age of 6, but fell from the horizontal bar on my back and lost interest in sports for a long time. Then there was a chess club and a music school for button accordion/accordion, from which I graduated in 1999 and, after a year's break, took up martial arts in the style of Shitoru Karate Do. At the same time, I entered the Chemistry and Biology Lyceum, and after graduating I entered the Belarusian State Medical University at the Faculty of Medicine. After two years of study, I was forced to move to Poland for political reasons, where in 2013 I graduated from the Medical University of Lublin with the title of Doctor of Medicine.
All this time, I did not abandon fine art for a second - I drew and painted constantly and wherever possible: on the streets, on trains, on a bus, on a boat, sometimes even on walls. I really love painting