white silence (2016) Painting by Valery Budanov

I brought the love of drawing from childhood to adulthood. He first received his education as an artist at a children's art school where he taught a wonderful watercolorist N.I. Ivanov, and then at the Art College of Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region, from which he graduated in 1978. As a student, he traveled all over the Far East with geological expeditions. He lived in the taiga in a tent. Met both bears and wolves. And he constantly admired the surrounding harshly beautiful nature, where practically no human foot had set foot and the first settlement was at a distance of five hundred kilometers. And he constantly painted with watercolors and pencils. I collected a backpack full of these impressions of the taiga, mountains, the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk. And these impressions of mine were stolen in the train car when I returned home. They stole a wonderful piece of life and, not having received the expected values, out of anger they threw away the paper they did not need, which scattered along the entire railway. He lived in the city of Khabarovsk, where he was engaged in administrative work, collaborating with publishing houses along the way, performing graphic drawings and designing printed publications. From the end of the 90s he was engaged in business, and only after moving to Moscow in 2004 and having plunged into the creative life of the Russian capital, he again took up brushes and paints. ‎ ‎ In my works I convey admiration for the beautiful female body in the style of romantic erotica. Favorite themes of paintings are sea views with ships of past eras, mountain landscapes, animals. I love working on portraits. I especially like to write eyes, these mirrors of the soul. And I'm always looking for my own style. ‎The works are in private collections in Russia, France, Germany, USA, Canada, China, Taiwan, Holland, Spain, Portugal.

• Nationality: RUSSIA
• Date of birth : 1953
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Russian Contemporary Artists