Zhelnov Nikolay

Zhelnov N.V. was born in 1967. He lives and works in Moscow. He has higher education in art. In 1996, he graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, studying under Vasnetsov A.V. He has been a member of the Moscow Union of Artists since 1997. He works in oil painting, easel graphics, and printmaking. Since 1994, he has been participating in exhibitions.

First prize at the youth exhibition (Moscow Union of Artists)

First prize of the Moscow Union of Artists for the series of works "The Gospel Cycle"

Second prize of the Moscow Union of Artists for the series of etchings

When conceiving one picture, the artist paints another, and the viewer sees something else. The idea should not pressure the artist. The initial impulse is the will to create. The artist, as a creator of the world, must have an inner will to create that depends on nothing. It is not the picture that matters, but the way of thinking; not the distances, but the environment. Nature changes forms. What is correct and understandable today will be called absurd tomorrow. To approach where faith begins, to go beyond the depicted. To trust in beauty and material, to awaken the relic consciousness.