Inspiration
I use various media to create series of works channeling my excessive emotional energy onto the surface and allowing to escape from reality without leaving the studio.
The subject matter is often to lift the weight of existence and find a thread that pulls you forward to evolve and change yourself or your attitude towards challenging circumstances in life.
Inspiration comes within. The final outcome of the artwork is often uncertain. Where do you draw a last line is existential to every piece I consider finished. It starts with need to lock myself in the studio room and find way to the outer places within.
Little bit about me
I was born in Kazakhstan (Aktau) on the shores of the Caspian Sea in a small oily town in the middle of the desert. Spent most of my happy childhood summers in leafy North Kazakhstan (Shuchinsk) at grand mother's farm house, foraging in the forest, swimming in the lakes and looking after animals. Later in life my parents (both engineers) chose for me to go study Law driven by prestige of the occupation.
Art classes was a parallel activity during my school years since the age of 10 and despite high praising from the teachers art was dismissed as a career direction due to being unpractical. I have then spent 15 years in quasi legal career in banking, oil and gas, private clients and consulting industries both in Kazakhstan and the UK before one day deciding to abandon the office all together to give myself a chance to become a serious artist.
[exhibitions]
[ corporate display ]
Apr-Jun 2023 Bingham Riverside Hotel & Membership Club, Richmond
Mar 2022 Open Studios, Berkshire
Oct 2021 The Other Art Fair
Apr 2020 Best Sold Artist of All Times Saatchi Art
Apr 2020 Infinity Room, White Box Gallery London
Oct 2019 Affordable Art Fair Battersea, Degree Art
Oct 2019 RVP Gallery, Wilmslow, Manchester
Oct 2019 Open Studios Delta House, Wimbledon
Aug 2019 the Auction Collective, Bankside Hotel, London
Jul 2019 Henley Regatta & Art Festival, Art Elite
Mar 2019 The Other Art Fair, London
Sep - Dec 2018 Interio 22, Art Play, Moscow
Mar 2018 The Other Art Fair, Holborn, London, UK
Dec-Jan 2018 Cass Art Exhibition Flag Store & Rise Art, Islington, London
Oct 2017 The Other Art Fair, London
Sep 2017 The Frame show by Saatchi Art + Samsung,
London, Clerkenwell Design Week
Sep 2017 Decorative Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
2017 - 2019 Catherine Miller Art Gallery, Chelsea, London
Apr 2017 The Other Art Fair, London
Nov-Dec 2016 Aubergine Gallery, Wimbledon, London
Nov 2016 Edinburg Art Fair, represented by Gaudi Gallery, Madrid
Nov 2016 solo, Art Gallery 657 Studio, Fulham Rd, London #Flyingsolo
2016 Cover page - Saatchi Art Autumn 2016 Printed Catalogue
Aug 2016 Hoxton Arches, London, with Meet the Artists
Feb 2016 Whitechappel Gallery, London, First Thursdays by Creative Debuts
Jan-Mar 2016 Hoxton Hotel Gallery, Holborn, London, Creative Debuts
Jan 2016 Art Room 2016, Melia White House Hotel, London
Dec 2015 Maze Art OXO Tower Barge House, London
Oct 2015 Wells Art Contemporary 2015, Somerset, UK
Apr - Jan 2016 Artist of the Day (twice), Inside the Studio, Saatchi Art
July - Sep 2015 solo , Mathew’s Yard Caffe & Art Gallery, Croydon
[ on the big screen & TV ]
Feb 2021 Park Hyatt Aviara 5*, Florida
Nov 2020 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York
Apr 2020 Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Chicago
Jul 2019 Spirit of Discovery Luxury Cruise-ship, SAGA
Jan 2018 Timbers Kauai Hawaii - with Eaton Fine Art, Blue Bay for new built hotel
Mar - Jun 2016 Oliver, (Marketing Agency) Old St, London, with Creative Debuts
Feb - May 2016 Black + White Offices, Shoreditch, London, with Creative Debuts
Feb - Jun 2016 20 Canada Square, City of London (Property Developer)
July 14 - May 2015 Werner Capital (Property Developer), Belgravia, London
Apr - Oct 2013 Bonas MacFarlane (Educational Consultancy), Battersea, London
Nov 2016 Mar 2016
Doctor Strange, Marvel movie, 2 artworks for the filming set decoration
US Drama Scandal, from episode 515, series since 2012, ABC studios