Nikolai Bogomolov was born in 1956 in Vologda, Russia and has lived in St.Petersburg most of his life. Though Nikolai graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Technology and worked for 10 years as a research scientist, art eventually consumed him and in 1989 he devoted himself exclusively to painting. Nikolai once described this transformation: "An artist grew inside me like a tree, gradually filling the entire inner space".
Since then, Nikolai has participated in several groundbreaking projects, including the "All for One Earth", which included group shows in St.Petersburg and San Francisco and the creation of a mural on a five-story building in St. Petersburg, and
Urisman Fine Arts, which brought St.Petersburg’s most renowned artists to the US Pacific Coast.
Nikolai continues to work in a several mediums, including oil on canvas, acrylic on hand-made paper, and digital art and computer graphics. Since 1996 he has been teaching computer graphics and design in the Educational Media Center in St.Petersburg, passing on his aesthetic and visual talents to a new generation of artists.
Rich Harvest
Vintage Bottles
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Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1959, Gil Bruvel's French-born parents moved the family back to the south of France when he was 4 years old. While taking drawing lessons at age 9 and learning sculpture basics, Gil made the decision to spend his life creating art. There he found himself inspired by the light and landscapes in this region. He began working with oil paint at the age of 12 and the local environment had an enormous and lasting influence on his palette –giving him luminous colors he continues to use today.
Gil's father, being a cabinetmaker, introduced the budding artist to the inner workings of a wood workshop including furniture design, its practical function, and every aspect of hand crafting each piece. Taking this knowledge and experience with him, Gil began studies at an art restoration workshop 1974, spending the next three years learning the techniques of the Old Masters and modern Masters of fine art. Thereafter he set up his studio in St. Remy de Provence until 1986 when he first made his way to the United States, making it his permanent residence in 1990.
At that time he started to experiment more with sculptures in bronze, mixed media and digital modeling as well as continuing to learn about creative processes in artistic expression.
Intuition
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The Trinquetaille Bridge
Oil on canvas 73.5 x 92.5 cm. Arles: October, 1888. Private collection
Vincent's House in Arles (The Yellow House)
Oil on canvas 72.0 x 91.5 cm. Arles: September, 1888. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum
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[показать] Явление (2008)
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