Pavel Filin

He works in drawing and oil painting. He continued his studies at a higher school of applied arts, and even while still a student there, he knew that his path would lead him to the Moscow Academy, where he studied painting. In his work, he focuses on oil painting with a palette knife. He primarily paints portraits, but also landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, and more. Pavel Filin uses the palette knife technique, experimenting with it and combining it with other techniques. He focuses primarily on portraits, in which he is able to express human emotions with uncanny precision. While working on portraits and figurative paintings, he began studying human anatomy, and as he himself said: “A painting needs no ‘literary’ interpretation or commentary, because it carries all the information within itself. Art has solely and exclusively a visual effect. People often ask me where I get my ideas from.” If people do not understand his work, no words will help them. Emotions and moods can be found in his paintings through a combination of unrelated colors and the interplay of light and shadow. He is most fascinated by the human figure and the aforementioned interplay of colors.