About Me.
I started painting in 2020. Pastel and canvas are my conscious choice. It’s unconventional. Pastel is usually associated with lightness, sketchiness, tenderness. Canvas — with oil and acrylic. Their combination creates tension: a velvety, breathing surface meets rough fabric. Pastel doesn’t adhere well to canvas, it crumbles, it requires fixing. But it is precisely this fragility and resistance that make each work special. I don’t blend pastel into a smooth patch — I leave marks, strokes, layers. Each stroke is a thought that hasn’t been smoothed over. The canvas shows through the pastel. This is honest: the painting doesn’t pretend to be something finished and coherent. It reveals its assembly, its doubts, its crossed-out lines.
I create physical objects. They leave their presence in the real world — you can hold them in your hands; they age, get scratched, change. This is a continuation of the same principle: thinking that becomes matter. But my pastel-on-canvas works are my main statement. They require courage from the viewer — the courage to think — and from me, responsibility for every title and every stroke.
Social Works.
I create social paintings that require thought. My painting is not a wall decoration. It does not soothe or entertain. It stops you. A viewer looking for something “beautiful” or “understandable” will walk past — and that’s fine. My painting begins at the moment when a person asks: “Why exactly this way?” and does not find a quick answer.
Why many works are “not for sale” right now?
What you see before you are my preparatory sketches. They are like a musician’s drafts or a designer’s roughs. They are valuable for their idea and dynamics, but they are NOT a finished product (like the final painting). Based on these sketches, I work on a “Custom Order” basis:
- You choose a sketch or concept you like.
- I create for you a full-fledged, completed work in a large format (canvas/oil or any material of your choice).
- You get the “breath” of that sketch, but in a luxurious, detailed, and high-quality execution, with or without framing in a moulding.
These small works remain in my portfolio as the beginning of a story, while your large painting becomes its finale.
For these works, the title is half the painting.
My painting does not exist without a title. The title is not a caption or an explanation. It enters into a necessary harmony with the image. The word may contradict what you see. It may clarify. It may turn the meaning upside down. But without it, the painting is silent; with it, it speaks.
Memorable Landscapes.
My practice is inseparably connected with travel and expeditions. I go to interesting, sometimes hard-to-reach locations, take photos, make drawings and studies from nature, and then based on these, I create paintings — a kind of “visual diary” of the places that inspire me. These works find their buyers at festivals, where I participate as an exhibitor, selling my works and receiving feedback through direct, live interaction. These are mainly landscapes of interesting places and locations.
Fractal Cubism.
A synthesis of abstraction based on self-similarity. Each large element of the image is broken down into equal parts without remainder — the ratio of the parts is always expressed as a whole number. According to research, fractal patterns reduce stress when contemplated, and I use this effect as part of my artistic statement.
Audio Coloristics.
A method of creating a static “cast” of a musical composition. Using the color wheel and my own developed “note–color” scheme, I achieve a harmony of colors identical to the harmony of sounds. Three-note chords are placed onto the color wheel as isosceles triangles, and the composition itself conveys the rhythm, sound wave, and emotional energy of the music through abstract forms and contrast. This direction also has a social aspect: it can make music “visible” to people with hearing impairments.
For the Soul.
Flowers, still lifes, copies. Everything that can be aesthetically beautiful.
These include various still lifes, landscapes, interpretations of other artists, and simply aesthetic or interior works.
