My first drawing was of a tie.

I was really young, maybe 5 years old, and very pleased to have understood how to represent an object graphically. From then on, I wanted to attend an art school, which exist from a very young age in my country, Ukraine.
However, for family reasons, this was not possible, and I followed a traditional education until adolescence. Drawing and painting nevertheless took up a lot of my time, and I dared to apply to theDnepropetrovsk School of Fine Arts in 1995, where I studied for 5 years.
I was then able to join Kiev Academy of Fine Arts where I completed a comprehensive and demanding course lasting around ten years.

Painting is my reason for being and takes up all my time.

My works have been successfully exhibited at world-renowned auctions such as Christie's, Chelsea, and other art sales in Italy, Germany, France, and Great Britain. My works are included in public and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.

In my artistic practice, I do not favor any existing artistic trend or movement, confidently leaving that task to the specialists. Some art critics perceive in my portraits a correspondence with the artistic trend known as “abstract figurative.”

For the past fifteen years, my research has focused on a series of monumental portraits with a strong visual impact. In 2021, Ukraine celebrated the 30th anniversary of its independence. To mark the occasion, I came up with a project to paint 30 portraits of young women aged 30 or under. These are portraits of girls born in a free country.

The portraits are abstract figurative in style, particularly in their interpretation of color and light, which is very free and personal. After the Russian invasion, this project became the charity project “Art Ukraine.”

 I paint portraits in oil. My creative approach is characterized by a personal synthesis between a reflection on modern artistic practices and the fundamental achievements of realism in European fine art aesthetics.

 I reinterpret the most recent aspects of the development of a relatively traditional genre: portrait painting. Despite the strict formal requirements inherent in this genre, color remains the dominant feature of my works; it is the main vehicle for conveying psychology and figurative atmosphere.

Portraiture is one of the most distinctive and complex artistic genres. Its centuries-old history has opened up a vast field of expression and avenues for humanity, giving rise to entire traditions and schools over the centuries. But any artist who chooses portrait as their subject of choice is confronted with the phenomenon of time and timelessness, the obvious and the immeasurable, the physical and the spiritual, eternally embodied in the image of a person.

I had to leave Ukraine in 2022 and am currently living in France, where I have participated in several charity events whose proceeds go to my compatriots who remained in the country.

Ayant le talent d’écrire un portrait psychologique, j’ai été invité à plusieurs reprises à effectuer des commandes privées en Suisse, en France, en Allemagne et en Italie. Je travaille toujours sur commande pour des portraits sur photos.

I also create large murals in public and commercial buildings, as well as outdoors (on building facades).

Quoiqu’il arrive je peins et continuerai à peindre.
Le message, contenu dans la vie, est très clair : chaque rêve doit être réalisé, pour l’amour de notre vie.

This dream is the true essence of works of art.