Biography
Painting initially is a Silent Media, and I work in the hope that my paintings can speak for themselves. I transfer my thoughts, my feelings and emotions on canvas by brushes and paints, and I think, if a painting needs a lot of explanations, it should have been a book, or a song, or lyrics rather than the painting. My passion is for portrait painting, but I suggest that my work is a kind of performance rather than traditional portraiture. I paint an image as a ‘litmus-paper’ of the inner, a symbol of emotions and feelings. The Red, which I use in my works, has a deep meaning for me. In Russian language, particularly in folk’s fairy tales, often the word ‘red’ equates to the word ‘beautiful’. One of the worldly known Russian writers Fyodor Dostoevsky has said ‘Beauty will save the World'. Also in many cultures ‘red’ means passion; in Tibetan philosophy it means connection with the Universe. I believe that images and objects which have been created with passion can take an immense power that is sometimes found in religious art, a kind of powerful energy that has an ability to alter one’s mental state and even transform reality. Art is a powerful tool to keep this world in harmony.
