photos by Leonid Ermoshin
I was born in 1983, in Moscow. I have spent probably the happiest moments of my life in front of an easel.
When I was a year and a half, I was given colours and since that time I can’t imagine my live without art.
My mother and grandmother left me in a room for a short period of time.
They supposed to see a beautiful painting, but when they came back, they saw a blank piece of paper and me, painting my nails yellow.
Speaking about my art, I love to paint Russian villages, where the native spirit of our soul stays unchanged. Also I like making illustrations.
Illustrating a book is a difficult process, it takes a lot of time to clear up all the details, find out the peculiarities of the epoch,
understanding the author’s relations with the characters, but it’s a great joy to do it.
I thing, I was matched by fate with “Alice in Wonderland”, I couldn’t let her go so I didn’t:
I made a puppet whom I carry on a dialogue with when I want some constructive criticism.
“Each of her words costs a hundred pound sterling”!!!
My another passion is matte painting. The process, that begins with making an sketch and is concluded with making a non-existent reality,
that looks like a photography, is very fascinating. Many of my friends don’t understand what does it mean – to paint a photo.
I like people, who are mad about their work. In my opinion, art rules the world.
Restating Kandinsky, --“The deeper the art becomes, the more strongly it calls man toward the infinite,
awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural”.