Born in Moscow, Vladimir Sobolev, was awarded his first international art prize at the age of twelve years and over the past forty years has traveled extensively , exhibiting and carrying out commissions in many corners of the world. A former Professor of Fine Art at the Moscow College of Fine Art and currently visiting Professor he remains a truly Russian painter, with a school of realist paintings as his basis. Admiring the masterpieces of ancient architecture wherever he has been he conveys that special flavor characteristic of each place- be it the walls of the ancient towns of the ‘Golden Ring” of Russia, to the brightly painted facades of Australian cities, the urban landscape of the USA or the gingerbread festiveness of Amsterdam.
