Turbulent times make us strive for eternal values.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My paintings are my research of world's transformation from self-destruction to re-creation that humanity is passing now, the way towards conscious pursue of Happiness. I am using the metaphor of Bluebird as a metamodernist image engaging the process of transformation. Its symbolic meaning that has been accumulated through centuries stays meaningful in modern times. A bird with blue feathers is seen as harbinger of Happiness and Hope in pantheons of ancient and contemporary cultures including Chinese Dynasties, Native American tribes, modern music, literature. People keep chasing the Bluebird and its vibes in elusive moments of our daily life.
I am turning to impressionists' fundamentals, their challenge to capture flashes of emotions, memories and dreams.
Re-thinking their approach I am using two similar but conceptually different mediums separately or together. Vivid full-bodied images are created with oil colours linking my art to historical traditions of depicting eternal beauty of human and nature. Acrylic as a modern material implements synthetic canvas of our current living within artificial news and sublimated identities. Abstracts - in both oil and acrylic - make an important compliment to general concept of my art reflecting deeper feelings and background emotions evoked by the world around.

Through combination of eternal and modern elements pursue of Happiness in my art becomes a key to inner and outer Balance. I wish my Bluebird helps people to live through turbulent times and teaches all of us to treasure moments of Joy, celebration of Beauty and value of Life as they are.