The Layers

I often listen to music when I paint, therefore I am not sure if I do paint music that I hear or something derived from music comes into my images.
My artworks are figurative. I also use a vocabulary of symbols, some of those are borrowed from various sources – dreams, folk tales, past experiences, history, art etc. Symbolism and philosophy provide the fundamental basis for my work.

My latest works incorporate metaphors, often of my roots and my place; of what I have left behind and where I am headed off to. These often in a form of folk tales, which infiltrate my paintings with images from everyday life.

I was born in a former Soviet Union, if I want to be more accurate of my birthplace it lays somewhere in a steppes of Kazakstan in the military township (exact location can not disclosed for the security purposes of Kazakstan). There my father used to work in the late 60s early 70s, constructing nuclear shelters during Soviet vs. China crisis.

That place was near nuclear tests fields, surrounded by eternal steppes, inhabited by local population of Kazakhs minding herds of horses and sheep.