Natasha (1989) Painting by Nikolai Chebotaru

Nickolai Chebotaru was born in 1948 to a peasant’s family in Odessa , Ukraine.
At aged 24 he entered the Odessa Art College and left with honours. Working as a teacher at Moldova Art School he was teaching children and gaining experience sharpening his creative skills. There he was invited to exhibit his work and he proved himself to be a talented artist.
In 1979 Nickolai moved to Sevastopol. But Nickolai’s real creative life began from 1987 when he started to work at the famed Sevastopol Artists Union.
Nikolai’s painting is impressionistic. He works in different styles: landscape, portrait and still life. He has outstanding composition skills and innovatative colour creation. His works display a fusion of naturalistic light and shimmering colour.
Nickolai has spatial awareness , he perpetuates the shaky deciduous power of being. Pure painting celebrates in his still life canvasses: here the content becomes background only still life gives pure artistic pleasure . Enjoy if you will !
The artist’s landscapes work as a message composed by him. The message awakens definitive mental processes we don’t consider - they are hidden from self- observation.
Looking at Nikolai’s paintings one can feel the time flowing more slowly, air becoming purer..one can breathe more easily. Bright light comes from the canvasses, the cascade of majestic colour infects.
Imagine the sunny days of childhood, cozy corners and landscapes inviting one to view the secret of the quivering story of Nikolai’s heart and the story about the lyrical feelings of the artist’s inner tormented soul.
Nickolai is a painter who thinks with eternity in mind .Unaltered adherance to the deep nature studying, logical compositional thinking. His creations invite us to look around to see pure blue sky, wet grass , real not digitised.
We invite you to drop into the artist’s studio where you can see his magical works which awakens passion in people’s souls and the window to the artist’s inner soul
His portraits are a real epic of life, they are deeply psychological and are full with spiritual human character. They determine the epoch.
What should one feel watching the result of his creation? An unlimited love for nature and an enrichment of the spiritual senses ……

• Nationality: UKRAINE
• Date of birth : 1948
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Ukrainian Contemporary Artists