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2008 oil on board 15×15 cm

There is this amazing coffee shop on top of the Magnus shopping center in Lviv, where we usually have their yummy dumplings and enjoy one of the best views over the Lviv city center.

This painting is part of my post-Soviet series. Please send your bid by email if you want to purchase it.

Benjamin Sullivan has an amazing output of artwork primarily in casual portraits.

2008 oil on board 15×15 cm

Forgot the name of the place, but it’s the type where the waiters act way too cool for their visitors.  The digs are really impressive though. Will look up the name for it shortly.

Went to see the Threadneedle prize show at the Mall galleries this year. Lots of great figurative art,  artists of note for us were Paul Brandford, Peter Brown among others.

This painting is part of my post-Soviet series. Please send your bid by email if you want to purchase it.

2008 oil on hardboard 15×15 cm

More impressions from the opening party of MA Fine Art graduate show at Central Saint Martins: fascinated with Erin o’Connor’s paintings on copper plates.

This painting is part of my post-Soviet series. Please send your bid by email if you want to purchase it.

2008 oil on hardboard 15×15 cm

Masako Yui stood out from the rest at the Central Saint Martins 2008 MFA opening. As well as it was pleasant to relate to quality abstracts from friends Olga Raciborska and Marc-Alexandre.

This painting is part of my post-Soviet series. Please send your bid by email if you want to purchase it.

2008 oil on board 15×15 cm

These were gracing my mom’s table the otehr day. the only reason she’d get them is because they are locally (Crimea) grown. This is how I know melons and grapes are in season now. The glass plate on one leg has been around the house as long as I remember - very typical for presenting desserts.

Check out Eloiza Mill’s figure drawings - amazing, and she is only 21 (found via Making a Mark blog).

This painting is part of my post-Soviet series. Please send your bid by email if you want to purchase it.

2008 oil on board 15×15 cm

Apples are ripening soon!

2008 oil on board, 15×15 cm

2008 oil on gessoed board 15×15 cm

2008 oil on gessoed board 15×15 cm

Have I shared with you  the awesome illustrations by Jason Das?

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2008 oil on gessoed board 15×15 cm

While in Kyiv a few days back,  I stopped by in one the branches of Kyiv’s best boutique Nebesa on Mezhygirska 8, and another one on Pushkinska st. They frequently update their art exhibits, most recent is by Oksana Shapkarina with her cute elephants.