My Art

For as long as I can remember, I was always drawing, scribbling, and copying from photos and illustrations. I would find books and magazines in the local library, and beyond the reading, I would choose whatever held images I could draw from. From early childhood, I felt it was my calling in life.

Of course, I was also dreaming of becoming an astronaut. In my time, Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space. His image was everywhere in the Soviet Union, where I was born. I was ten years old, and somewhere in one of my many sketchbooks, I must have drawn his face. I drew spacecraft obsessively — the cockpit and all the other components of what I imagined the craft would look like. I read Jules Verne and planned to become an astronaut. I never became one, but the ambition to fly high has never left me. I never imagined that this same ambition would become my vocation through the choice to become an artist.

I love all forms of form-making — oil, aquarelle, mixed techniques of tempera and oil, acrylic, pastel, gouache. My themes are mostly everyday objects that hide a mystery or an emotional story: personal memories, spiritual hunches, intuitive contemplation, and sometimes immaterial themes like the rhythms of jazz, the feeling of a landscape, the dancing forms of people in a café. An expressive face of a stranger that tells the story of their life — or of my loved ones, who always carry a deep inner meaning.

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