ARTIST'S STATEMENT
It's about Time, which is unyielding.
It's about Dream that is unbound.
It's about Feeling that is ingenuous.
It's about Experience of unforgettable.
It is about Unfathomable, yet familiar.
It's about Inexhaustible Light.
- Painting for me is a spiritual activity. I strongly believe that as Robert Motherwell said, "through painting our passions touch" and our souls I would say. Using word soul here in a Russian way, which is not a religious term, but refers to the core of a human being, essence of her/his feelings and thoughts.
- The work like mine can be mistaken for the escapist art, which is usually stands for great utopian fantasies, that is not the case. I do acknowledge reality and accept it with all its contradictions, its beauty and its horrors. And the formality, straightforwardness of the painting comes out of that. Each line or a dot is a poetic metaphor for the events in our lives, for the stapes that we take, therefore there is a transparency and clarity of each individual mark, and if there is a mistake it stays there, just like in life.
- Basic elements - dots and lines are organized on a flat surface according to a simple rule that varies from project to project. The application process is meditative in nature and is the key element for understanding the meaning of work. I strive to achieve balance and harmony between participating elements such as colors and shapes. My use of color is associative and often symbolic. I model my space after the sky and the surface of the ocean - indefinable and limitless, which flat surface implies calmness as well as great power and endless depth.
- The only illusion I am interested is an illusion of movement. Movement represents life.
- The sense of freedom when I start my dot paintings is intoxicating. That little dot can dance though this enormous space of a canvas in any imaginary way, and it does, and it's a lot of fun. Of course, soon enough it is obvious that particular patterns emerge. As much as it tries there are inner rules that this dot cannot escape. The chaotic order of this activity creates as a result a very beautiful textural effect.
- I draw my inspiration from anonymous artist of the ancient past for whom painting was foremost a spiritual, even religious experience. I feel strong affinity with the cultures that use painting is part of their spiritual activities and which hold nature in great esteem. Aboriginal art, Buddhist Art and art that had been inspired by Buddhist's thought.
- I am also a romantic painter, in a way that 19th century romantic artist were, I share their idealistic views, and again, worship of nature. And in a sentimental way too ....it is all about love to me.