Cat in a shirt (2020) Printmaking by Vasiliy Pimenov

My paternal great-grandfather was a royal clerk under Nicholas II. Perhaps not the most outstanding position, but the great thing is that the craving for drawing was inherited to me. Well, this is one of the theories that has been voiced. In any case, I drew from early childhood.
The talent for drawing was recognized by everyone, starting from kindergarten. But my parents, a Soviet engineer and an English teacher, decided that painting is something that has no future. And here is mathematics, geometry, etc. ... this is something without which it is impossible to live. Therefore, it was decided not to send to art school. And what could simple laborers know about the future? The country was going through terrible times. 90s, 00s. Work became less and less. Who to be was not clear. I was not particularly asked who I want to be. And I didn’t know what to choose. They just decided for me: You will be an economist. Being an economist is probably great, but what to do when you love to draw from birth? Recently, I decided it was not too late to become who I was born. Moreover, I have something to say.
There is a version that Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov, an artist of the Wanderer, some kind of our distant relative.

• Nationality: RUSSIA
• Date of birth : 1985
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Russian Contemporary Artists

The Artist was highlighted in an article in Artmajeur Magazine:

Vasiliy Pimenov, The art of making life better