Studio · Melbourne I work where copper meets eucalypt — at the edge of a vanishing landscape.
I trained at the Stroganov Academy in Moscow and now paint from a small studio in Melbourne. My practice layers oxidised copper, hand-cut glass and Australian botanicals into surfaces that hold light differently with the time of day.
Each piece is one-of-a-kind. I make slowly, with the work, and the work is always about the same quiet thing: what we owe the country we live on.
From the studio
At the heart of my work lies the intricate bond between nature and human existence.
Each work begins outside — with a walk, a pressed leaf, a shard of bottle glass. Back in the studio, the materials are coaxed into conversation: copper oxidising in slow weather, ink running where it pleases.
Currently exhibiting
Linden New Art 
Red Gallery 
Victorian Artists Society Galleries 
Standing & representation.
Field notes & making.
On copper, and patience
The making of "Hiding in the Forest" — three months of waiting for the patina to choose its colour.
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Field notes from Wilsons Promontory
A week sleeping under granite. The seed pods that became "Observer".
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A small house, a very big forest
Why the same tiny copper houses keep appearing in the work — and what they are doing there.
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On dragonflies, and not catching them
The cedar fronds and the dragonfly visitors that made their way into "Forest Vibe".
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