Нефритовые сны

An old man walks next to a loaded cart, pulled by a donkey, by the Yellow River in the light of the sunset. Wherever this “Желтая река. Берега (#9)”

One-of-a-kind extra-large tempera painting on canvas. It is covered with a glossy varnish for the brightness of colours and the preservation of painting for many “Чашка чая в Праздник Луны (#7)”

Another memory of China which keeps attracting me so much for the beauty of its culture and for its paradoxical contrasts, inexplicable to the eye “Синица (#8)”

When I arrived in 2009 in Lanzhou, a large city located right in the middle of China, I was struck by the strong presence of “Желтая река (#5)”

In this tempera painting, I’ve melded the figurative with surrealism, capturing the essence of a dreamlike celebration. Cradled within tender hands, the tea cup becomes “Поединок (#6)”

In Chinese culture, dragons embody kindness and power. In China, dragons are everywhere : in legends, festivals, astrology, arts, names and even sentences. Simple lines “Вечерние звезды (#3)”

This work is an opportunity to play with the different plans and scales of representation in order to create a metaphorical space out of time. “Под ветвями ивы (#4)”

This is my very first painting on canvas painted in Paris, at that point in my life I had to make a crucial decision : “Сборщица риса (#1)”

In creating this artwork, I delved into the mystical interplay between the everyday and the ethereal. Through tempera on canvas, I bring a scene where “Чашка риса (#2)”