Artiom Tolstukhin (b. 1981), Snow and Haystack, 2010
Oil on cardboard, 26 x 50 cm
Signed, dated in lower left corner.
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Artiom Tolstukhin - painter. He was born in 1981 in Crimea. He graduated from the Simferopol Art School named after Samokish at the faculty of illustration. As a result of the All-Ukrainian Olympiad, he entered the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Art, where he studied at the Faculty of Renovation of easel and monumental painting. For 10 years he participated in the restoration of churches and other architectural monuments in Ukraine. He has received numerous awards for his work in numerous national and international competitions (for example, in 2011 he won first place in the "Visual Communication of Florence" competition). Since 2007, he has participated in group and individual exhibitions at home and abroad (including the USA, China, Ukraine and France), as well as in numerous plein-air events. He has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (Kharkiv branch) since 2012. His works are in private and public collections in Ukraine, the US and China
