Zhenya, nude woman on green (2019) Painting by Konstantin Fomin

Konstantin Fomin is a Moscow-based graphic artist, architect, member of the Union of Moscow Architects, member of the Union of Russian Artists. He received his art education at the School of Art in Balakovo. Architectural education in Moscow, took a course in book illustration with Tatiana Nikitina, associate professor of illustration at Moscow State University of Printing Arts. Konstantin lives and works in Moscow. He has more than 20 years of architectural practice, participated in major architectural projects and worked with leading museums. But a special place in his life has always been drawing.
Konstantin Fomin - a talented Russian artist, whose works have been presented at national exhibitions in Italy and in the U.S., winner and winner of art and architectural competitions. His paintings are in many private collections in Russia and abroad.
The artist's work is built on the admiration of female and male images - from portraits to drawings of nudity. Playing with line, form and color, he tries to convey the characteristic sensuality and subtle artistic aesthetic of human nature.
Most often he paints in pastel on primed canvas or charcoal on paper in an expressive authorial manner, reflecting his personal vivid emotionality. Fomin sees beauty and creates it in his works with precise, lively line, shimmering stain, emotional color and expressive textures. He uses gold and sauce in his work - an unusual national material, which has interesting properties, it can be painted as a bed and as a watercolor, with a brush and water. It is a classic academic material, a favorite at the Academy of Fine Arts. Konstantin Fomin  creates etchings.
"The theme of my work is life and myths, people, all together...I depict mostly people - women and men, often naked, in their natural state. I believe that any body is beautiful, has unique features and its own individual aesthetic. I create portraits, going deeper and studying the personality of the model, I try to express the characteristic external and internal, personal features, to reveal the beauty that I see in each person. In my work I try to convey the eternal beauty of classical and contemporary methods in the graphics. I think about the artistic understanding of the characters and states, emotionally expressed through the body.Sources of inspiration for me are everywhere! I observe the world, the events, what's going on around me. I read books and identify certain patterns, looking for stories that inspire me. I record it, my thoughts, reflections in a personal diary and use it all in my work. I love poetry, literature and history - it's an endless source of inspiration!I wish that a person who looks at my work would have a ringing silence inside... Silence is where we all come from...".

• Nationality: RUSSIA
• Date of birth : 1976
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Russian Contemporary Artists