Painting

The artist is a graphic and book illustrator.

Work for me is stenciled graphics and book illustration. One flows from the other. What I "accumulate" in free drawing translates into illustrations. And from books, I take plots, the magical property of immersion in other people's lives, other worlds.

Drawing is almost a meditative process for me. I think not everything has been drawn by me yet, not everything has been experienced in the journey from Italians and Dutch to Russian modernism.

Graduated from Moscow State University of Printing (Polygraphic Institute).

Illustrated books for publishers: "Children's Literature," "Book," "Egmont," "Dragonfly Press," "Junipress," "Zhalyin" (Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan), "Arevik" (Yerevan, Armenia). Designed "Russian Fairy Tales" for the American publisher "Billinna Publishing." Collaborated as an illustrator with magazines "Misha," "Murzilka," "Knowledge is Power," "12 1/2."

Artworks were exhibited at the "Modius" gallery in Moscow (1994 - OPM Bank, 1995 - "Eclectica" Central House of Artists). Solo exhibitions: 1991 at the "Montserrat Gallery" (New York, USA); 1993 at "The Ludwa Studio" gallery (Carmel, USA); 1994, 2011, 2013 participated in exhibitions at the Kroschitsky State Art Museum (Sevastopol, Russia). Illustrations for Armenian fairy tales made it to the shortlist of the "ADCR Russia 2006" contest.

Collaboration with galleries: "Polina Lobachevskaya," "Modius," "RIOS" (Tallinn, Estonia).

Works are held in private collections in Russia, Germany, USA, Latvia.

I live and work in Moscow and Tallinn.