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“Drinking Mirrors”120×110 cm, oil on canvas, 2020
“Hidden Information”40×40 cm, oil on canvas, 2020
“Mystic Divers”oil on canvas, 2011“No faculty of the mind reaches greater depths than the imagination; it is the great diver.” Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels, The Morning of the Magicians.
“Levitation”60×45 cm, 2016
“Cunning”70×90 cm, oil on canvas, 2016According to a Taoist legend, Liu Hai met a toad into which an enemy from his past lives had been reborn. His teacher Lü Dongbin told him to fish the toad out of a well using a belt with a coin tied to it, and the greedy toad clamped the coin so tightly in its jaws that it could be pulled out. From then on the toad served the Taoist as his steed, instantly carrying him wherever he merely thought of going.
“Bath Day”50×65 cm, oil on canvas, 2023
“On the Border of Worlds”2022
“Under the Melting Snow”50×70 cm, oil on canvas, 2021
“Formaldehyde”140×120 cm, oil on canvas, 2015
“Gardens of Virtuality”90×150 cm, oil on canvas, 2017
“Hemiplegia”65×80 cm, oil on canvas, 2022
“Tropical Paranoia”60×50 cm, oil on canvas, 2022
“Arc”26×70 cm, oil on canvas, 2022
“Clover”180×155 cm, oil on canvas, 2018
“Don't Cry, Darling”140×120 cm, oil on canvas, 2018
“Time”90×100 cm, oil on canvas, 2016
“Gold”oil, 2015“On evil's pillow Satan Trismegist / Long rocks our spirit in its bewitched sleep, / And the rich metal of our will is dissipated / Into vapour by that learned chemist…” Charles Baudelaire.
“Ozone Hole Syndrome”70×50 cm, oil on canvas, 2015There are several accepted theories of how ozone holes form. But the most terrifying and dangerous ones, the artist believes, are born and spread inside a person, opening right above the parietal bone.
“Creatures Baking Matter”55×75 cm, oil on canvas, 2015
“Lullaby”50×60 cm, oil on canvas, 2017
“Spare Curiosities”100×140 cm, oil on canvas, 2017
“Above the Water”30×55 cm, oil on canvas, 2021
“Flood”2000
“Alternative Source”35×55 cm, oil on canvas, 2021“We're living in an age when people aren't worth anything. A person is like a paper napkin…” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.
“Not Sci-Fi”100×120 cm, oil on canvas, 2018
“Strange Places”80×65 cm, oil on canvas, 2023“Always remember that the hardest thing in life is man himself…” Ivan Yefremov, The Bull's Hour.
“Attracting Attention”
“The Tengu's Fan”65×100 cm, oil on canvas, 2018“What! You don't know what a Tengu's fan is? If you tap the painted side of the fan and say three times, ‘Nose, grow!’…”
“The Keeper”2019
“Observation”60×50 cm, oil on canvas, 2017
“The Whaler”80×70 cm, oil on canvas, 2009–2024Sea monsters as the embodiment of humanity's primordial fears, and of overcoming them.
“Patrol of the Inevitable Spring”45×60 cm, oil on canvas, 2021
“Everyday Holidays”120×140 cm, oil on canvas“You're tense, Let. Let's return to the subject of your fears! In previous sessions you mentioned a fear of death, of life, of open spaces…”
“Colossal Divers”60×73 cm, oil on canvas, 2020
“Omnibus of Chaos”68×80 cm, oil on canvas, 2020“He emerged from the storm — a beast of copper and obsidian, wires and bone; the wind beneath his jagged wings carried the stench of sulphur and rotten souls…” Author unknown — perhaps a former pilot who vanished in the belly of the Hel-dragon.
“Tender Grinding”
“Toxic Christ”“Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.” Ephesians 4:19.
“Fever”65×80 cm, oil on canvas, 2022“…Exasperated, like a drunkard seeing double, / I went home, I shut my door, terrified, / Sick and chilled, my mind feverish and troubled, / Wounded by the mystery, by the absurdity!” Charles Baudelaire.
“Night Games”60×50 cm, oil on canvas, 2017
“Divine Ribs”50×60 cm, oil on canvas, 2021“Dost Thou know that the ages will pass, and humanity will proclaim by the lips of their sages and science that there is no crime, and therefore no sin; there is only hunger?” Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor.
“A Lot of Everything”90×70 cm, oil on canvas, 2016
“The Extinguished Sun”
“The Date”35×61 cm, oil on canvas, 2022
“On the Pyre of Love”
“The Night Before Christmas”
“Cold in a Lost Leg”80×100 cm, oil on canvas, 2019
“Amnesia”80×65 cm, oil on canvas, 2022“Why not? since through life's little day / Our heads such sad effects produce; / Redeem'd from worms and wasting clay, / This chance is theirs, to be of use.” Lord Byron, Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull.
“Spores”80×65 cm, oil on canvas, 2023“If you taste mould in your mouth after brushing your teeth, your body and mind no longer belong to you — they are controlled by Mycosis.” (From the Life of Fungi)
“Unidentified Horizon”65×80 cm, oil on canvas, 2022
“Christ Syndrome”80×80 cm, 1993
“Dreams of Reality”80×65 cm, oil on canvas, 2023
“The Oath”200×180 cm, oil on canvas, 2008
“Manifestation”65×80 cm, oil on canvas, 2023“In its ruthlessness capitalism rewards psychopathic behaviour… one could say it is the physical manifestation of psychopathy.” Robert Hare, Without Conscience.
“Luminosity”65×80 cm, oil on canvas, 2022
“The Duel”50×50 cm, oil on canvas, 2008
“The Lost Soldier”1999
“Fruits of Knowledge”195×155 cm, oil on canvas, 2018
“Ship of Psychopaths”45×60 cm, oil on canvas, 2021
“Paramnesia. Devourer of Others' Victories”35×35 cm, oil on cardboard, 2021
“Van Gogh, a Psychedelic Portrait”130×130 cm, 2017
“Fruits of Mystical Moods”80×60 cm, 2002
“The Total Firefighter”120×100 cm, 2015An image of self-sacrifice and of the mystical, ritual bond between the elements and man — the fateful choice of a person's struggle with himself and with the primordial fear of fire.
“Mystic Gates”2005
“Coercion”140×110 cm, 2025
“The Shepherd”80×65 cm, oil on canvas, 2025“For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.” Acts 20:29.
“Strictly Personal”60×75 cm, oil on canvas, 2010
“Society of Good Intentions and Secret Plans”85×100 cm, oil on canvas, 2003
“Dreamcatcher”90×80 cm, oil on canvas, 2002
“Magnetic Storm”200×150 cm, oil on canvas, 2006
“Hominid Communication”90×70 cm, 2016
“Warning! Poison in Words”120×140 cm, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2013
“Phantoms of Aristocratic Fields”120×140 cm, oil on canvas, 2013
“Fear Eaters”140×120 cm, oil on canvas, 2013
“Friday Van Gogh Turning into Saturday”80×90 cm, oil on canvas, 2016
“Bulldog”100×120 cm, mixed media on canvas, 2013
“The Energy of Milk”125×180 cm, oil on canvas, 2012
“The Exit”90×140 cm, oil on canvas, 2014
“From the Depths”100×120 cm, mixed media, 2013
“The Maiden and the Knight”60×50 cm, oil on canvas, 2000
“Fire Spell”50×40 cm, oil on cardboard, 2016
“The Beetle”50×45 cm, oil on canvas, 2021“There are souls that have hidden faded dawns, blue stars and the leaves of time; there are souls where ancient shadows hide, the murmur of past sorrows and dreams…” Federico García Lorca.
“Time Vortex”75×80 cm, oil on canvas, 2025A space where everything begins and everything ends: the world works like an hourglass — it twists into a point, falls out of space and returns again, ad infinitum.
“Sinking into Sleep”120×140 cm, mixed media on canvas, 2013
“Midday Dream”45×35 cm, oil on cardboard, 2015
“Phobias of Abandoned Quarries”120×100 cm, oil on canvas, 2008
“Piercing Thought”120×140 cm, oil on canvas, 2014
“Polonaise”120×100 cm, oil on canvas, 2019
“Soldiers of the Apocalypse”oil on canvas, 2007
“Dryad”40×60 cm, oil on canvas, 2022
“Implant”42×52 cm, oil on canvas, 2016
“And You Didn't Believe!”100×120 cm, oil on canvas, 2016
“Burning Solitude”70×60 cm, oil on canvas, 2006
“Effect”110×100 cm, oil on canvas, 2015“Protect the children!”
“Shell Seekers”120×140 cm, oil on canvas, 2013
“The Pilot's Mystical Intuition”190×160 cm, oil on canvas, 2012“I have caught and hold inside me something quite extraordinary, strong and springy, like an unsolved mystery.”
“Branding Sins”120×140 cm, oil on canvas, 2006
“Disinfection”120×140 cm, mixed media on canvas, 2013
“Method of Inclusion”40×40 cm, canvas on cardboard, 2020
“Sea of Tranquility”120×140 cm, oil on canvas, 2016According to Asian myths, the first people lived on the Moon. They were pure and serene.
“Carmen”42×42 cm, oil on canvas, 2015
“And the Windmills Grow Ever Higher”50×100 cm, 2005
“Bayonet Charge”50×70 cm, oil on canvas, 2007
“Concentration of Desires”35×45 cm, oil, canvas on cardboard, 2015
“Dogma”80×65 cm, oil on canvas, 2005
“Seven Found Treasures”200×140 cm, 2016
“They Come with the Dark Water”85×95 cm, oil on canvas, 2006
“Egocentrism”155×155 cm, oil on canvas, 2014
“Substitution”71×54 cm, oil on canvas, 2017
“Mollusc”55×65 cm, oil on canvas, 2015
“A Soldier's Naivety”45×35 cm, oil on canvas, 2015
“Return of the Stolen”80×60 cm, oil on canvas, 2005
“Three Attempts”50×60 cm, oil on canvas, 2016
“The Influence of Saturn”65×100 cm, oil on canvas, 2017
“Eternal Spring”50×60 cm, oil on canvas, 2018
“Filling”100×80 cm, oil on canvas, 2014
“Cast-Iron Heads”70×81 cm, oil on canvas, 2015
“Worship of the Void”140×120 cm, oil on canvas, 2015
“Conversation with Birds”oil on canvas, 2010
“The Unkillable”120×140 cm, mixed media on canvas, 2013
“Tower of Babel”140×180 cm, oil on canvas, 2014
“Eaters of Lies”50×60 cm, oil on canvas, 2008
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