Studio notes on individual paintings, process, materials, exhibitions, and the ideas behind the series.
Use the journal as a map: image, series, material, biography, and collector context are connected back to the works.
22 essays
4 routes
oil painting
collector context
A collector-focused guide to choosing large original oil paintings for living rooms, offices, and hospitality interiors — size, subject, wall fit, and what to ask before inquiry.
Four practical entry points for readers, collectors, curators, and search traffic.
Why the Black Madonna remains one of the most powerful images in Christian iconography — her origins in Catalonia, her parallels across cultures, and what it means to paint her in 2024 without either nostalgia or irony.
What it means to build a world through painting — not to depict reality, but to bring into being a space where myth, memory, and vision have not yet separated from one another.
How to collect art with intention — practical guidance on where to buy contemporary art, what to look for, and how to build a collection that means something beyond investment.
How Buenos Aires transformed my palette and my practice — painting the Argentine landscape with thick impasto, saturated color, and the eyes of a painter who came from the other side of the world.
Why contemporary animal paintings work online and in interiors — from Pink Buffalo and Chief Dove to bird portraits, guardian figures, and collector wall presence.
A practical wall-size guide for buying original paintings online: dimensions, room mockups, sofa placement, gallery walls, and when a work should be large or intimate.
A buyer-oriented guide to Porfirii Fedorin landscape paintings: coastal works, Buenos Aires parks, impasto texture, interior fit, and available original inquiry routes.
What a certificate of authenticity should include when buying original art online: artist, title, medium, size, date, signature, provenance, and documentation.
A practical collector guide to international art shipping: crating, packing, insurance, customs documents, delivery timing, and what to confirm before payment.
Why the Black Madonna remains one of the most powerful images in Christian iconography — her origins in Catalonia, her parallels across cultures, and what it means to paint her in 2024 without either nostalgia or irony.
What it means to build a world through painting — not to depict reality, but to bring into being a space where myth, memory, and vision have not yet separated from one another.
A deep look into the Sacred & Mythological series — where Biblical figures, Orthodox iconography, and Mesoamerican sacred art converge into a visual language entirely the artist's own.
How the passage from Russian icons to Argentine light reshaped a painter's vision — the geography of influence, studio practice, and the unexpected continuities between distant worlds.
On the impasto technique in oil painting — how thick paint texture transforms a canvas from flat image into physical presence, and why I build my surfaces the way I do.
What visionary art means beyond the label — its roots in sacred traditions, its difference from fantasy illustration, and how visionary painting functions as a method of knowledge.
Why the beast in painting is never merely an animal — on mythological creatures in art, the sacred dignity of animals, and what the Creatures & Beasts series reveals about the boundary between human and non-human.
How to collect art with intention — practical guidance on where to buy contemporary art, what to look for, and how to build a collection that means something beyond investment.
A working painter's approach to color theory — how the tension between warm and cool colors, complementary contrasts, and chromatic saturation creates the emotional architecture of a painting.
On figurative painting as a practice of encounter — how the Figures & Encounters series explores the boundary between the human, the animal, and the dreaming, through contemporary figurative art.
A clear explanation of what limited edition prints actually are — the difference between giclée prints and reproductions, why edition size matters, and how art print collecting works from the artist's perspective.
How Buenos Aires transformed my palette and my practice — painting the Argentine landscape with thick impasto, saturated color, and the eyes of a painter who came from the other side of the world.
What a working painter's day actually looks like — the rhythms of the artist studio, the discipline behind the painting routine, and why the daily practice matters more than inspiration.
Why mythology remains vital in contemporary painting — on the difference between illustrating myths and inhabiting them, and what mythological art can do that no other genre can.
What you need to know before buying art online — how to verify authenticity, evaluate quality from photographs, and make confident purchases of original art for sale on the internet.
On the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg, the place of visionary and mythological painting within Russian contemporary art, and what it means for an artist to enter a museum's permanent collection.
Ask the studio for availability, a collector dossier, or a PDF portfolio instead of reading the whole archive first.