Borisenko Ruslan

Graphic artist from Saint Petersburg.
I create works using ink graphics techniques, using the pointillism style (dotwork) and engraving techniques in my work. The images of my art sometimes go beyond the boundaries of classical art and move into digital graphics, which I use as an additional tool for expressing images and meanings.

My creative path began in early childhood and was continued at the Saint Petersburg Children's Art School No. 2, which largely determined the vector of my further life path and interests. Since childhood, I have preferred graphic tools of creative expression. Pencil, ink, ink. During my studies at the art school, my first exhibitions began.
Despite 2 higher educations in the field of graphic design and working with raster, vector and 3D graphics, I have retained an interest in traditional means of creative expression.
My graphics are not just a finished work. This is a whole world, as long as life, interesting, dynamic, sometimes complex, constantly expanding, seasoned with reflections on various topics. My goal is the visual disclosure of different aspects of human life - an interesting and sometimes complex path, filled with various events, emotions and experiences. There is a place for personal experience, emotions and interpretations, and there is also a place for the emotions of the viewer, which he shares with me through a dialogue with the paintings. I take different themes and images as the basis for my art, interweave elements of world cultural codes and season them with sacred meanings, archetypal symbols. Each of my paintings has an idea and meaning that are revealed gradually, upon detailed examination.

I am inspired by the works of my favorite artists, who at different times greatly influenced me, including Albrecht Durer, Salvador Dali, Ivan Aivazovsky, Vasily Kandinsky and Gustave Doré. I like not only the works of artists, but also the way they think. I share the thoughts of Vasily Kandinsky about the importance of lines and dots as elements of the artist's creative expression.

My artistic method consists of combining sometimes incompatible images of the conscious and unconscious into a story that, in addition to the figurative component, is professionally executed and has an aesthetic basis. In addition, when creating new works, I talk about various signs, symbols of bygone eras and give them historically accurate meanings. The greatest victory for me as an artist is to hear from the viewer that my art helped answer his questions and understand something for mymself.