Your heart is your home. Fill it with love. In the beginning, I painted images to satisfy my need for healing but I realized later on that you also want just that. Joy, balance, inspiration and love. I want to create art that lasts for decades for you. So you feel inspired, living in your dream space.
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When I graduated from high school in Moscow I didn’t know what to do with my life. After relocating to the U.S. introverted and without a clear direction, I chose going to art schools to fill in the gap I felt inside me. When I turned to painting in my early twenties, I’ve already had a college degree in business administration but I missed on big aspirations or plans for myself. I couldn’t imagine living in some office space, performing tasks and crunching numbers. I had a different calling. I took some art classes at a local community college for the fun of it. My immediate goal was to learn realistic drawing. Because classical art education was non-existent 25 years ago, I spent years learning the craft by going to various art schools. I thought it would be fairly easy but it turned out to be the most draining experience learning the skill and selling it.
In a few years I turned inward painting stories rather than objects. I began painting stories in portraits and figures as a way to process my emotions. A lot of art was a reflection of my search for Self and the lack of belonging. I spent years in internal search for validation or reasons to live, finding it hard to connect to anyone or anything that would provide me with meaning. I had a few breaking points that changed my understanding of reality.
It’s vital to find the unique connection to yourself to arrive at a deep state of peace and balance. I want to bring feelings of joy, peace and inspiration to your heart. In my art I wish to create a more loving world without violence, judgment and fear.
The purpose of beauty is to bring us back into unity with the divine.
Prof. Paul Monson
My visionary art is one of self-discovery. Using my emotions, thoughts, art history and travel as an amalgam for inspiration, I create colorful, figurative art on paper and canvas. A collection of recent visionary art paintings is my meditation on the meaning of life, recorded out of my need to experience feelings of love, balance, joy, healing and connection. I made a promise to myself to paint the world I want to see, feel and create, which is free of pain, judgement and fear. My mission is to inspire people to connect to their own soul and light to form a heart-centered world.
Education
- 2007-11 Workshops and classes in classical drawing and painting, The Grand Central Academy of Art & The Art Students League of New York
- 2005 MFA, Painting, The Pennsylvania State University
- 2003 B.F.A, Studio Art, the Oklahoma State University
- 1997 B.B.A, Management, Moscow Institute of International Business Education & The University of Tulsa
Group shows in art museums: the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, USA (2023), The Ormond Memorial Art Museum, Florida, USA (2022), The Bellefonte Art museum in Pennsylvania (artist of the month 2012), California Lutheran University, USA (2019), and County of Caravaggio Museum in Catania, Italy (2021).
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