An artist across materials

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Artistic Director and Lead Artisan

Custom automotive finishes

For eight years, I specialised in custom automotive finishes for classic and modern cars. The work included Candy colours, chameleon paint, airbrushing and pinstriping. One BMW 8 Series project drew on Andy Warhol’s cars and on the palette of Impressionist paintings in the Hermitage.

Decorative metalwork

At the Academy, I studied architectural and decorative metalwork, from repoussé and chasing to forging, jewellery, enamelling and patination. I worked with copper, brass, steel, Damascus and Bulat steel, and learned electroplating, gilding, silvering and etching. That training still shapes how I plan a surface and how closely I look at detail.

Murals

In my work on design and decorative projects, I created many murals for interiors, as well as several for facades, mainly commercial buildings. I used different techniques: painting, graffiti, and graphics such as grisaille and other styles. Murals were sometimes complemented with text elements, and the subjects varied: from portraits and figures to images of objects or products that reflected the specifics of the client’s business.

Interior finishes

I develop colours and surface finishes for furniture, fittings, lamps, radiators, hoods and other visible interior elements. When a standard finish does not suit the room, I build layered coatings that imitate aged or patinated metal or match an existing textile, wall or piece of furniture.

Painting

I work in painting and graphics, with a particular interest in Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and Pop Art. I use different formats, textures and subjects, from abstract colour fields to realism, and can add materials such as gold leaf when the composition calls for them.

Graphic design

I use Photoshop and Illustrator to prepare accurate mockups before making a piece. For animal portraits, I draw the features by hand and use the software to settle proportion and colour. The programs do not generate the image, and no AI filter is used.