Very important to me to be making a living doing what I love.
I paint pictures, realize my mission to inspire & help budding artists who do not quite believe in themselves: I arrange master classes, share the story of my start in painting and creativity.
I am inspired by nature and all its manifestations. Every time I rejoice like a child when I managed to convey the atmosphere, the beauty of the sky, the lighting and the details that make the picture look like a photograph.
I paint landscapes, in detail and realistically, so that the viewer, looking at my picture, feels himself in this place or remembers pleasant memories of a similar place from his life.
Basically, I like to paint landscapes sunny, positive and juicy. Often I paint with oil on canvas with a stretcher, less often I use watercolors & acrylic.
Before becoming an artist I have spent most of my adult careers as an project manager in bank and insurance corporate business. When I discovered my passion and ability for painting, I could not return to work in the banking business.
I have no art education, I am self-taught. I studied in the paintings of those artists whose work I like and are close to my taste. These are landscapes by Shishkin, Aivazovsky, Levitan, Polenov.