Alexander Koltakov

Artist Statement:

Alexander Koltakov is Canadian painter and sculptor, works with acrylics and oils on canvases, also creates plaster on wood reliefs, or three-dimensional paintings. He is truly passionate about the amazing beauty of nature, processing it through his eyes, his mind and his hands to the stillness of canvases and plaster, aspire to express not the picture, but the life itself, without forgetting the fabulousness of human presence in it. His favorite themes are nature and human body.

On canvases he works with brushes, palette knifes and finger touch when needed.

Alexander Koltakov's 3-D paintings consist of the plaster figures, sculptured and carved on the base of the wood frame, finally covered with acrylic colors, creating spatial view, as real, as color - induced.

Education:

Art studio, Crimea
Toronto School of Art

Exhibitions:

Lunenburg Art Gallery, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada - Sep30-Oct1/2017
@Pain the Gardens- Plein air painting event at Halifax Public Gardens, NS, Canada, July -September 2017
@Paint Peggy's Cove - Peggy's Cove Plein Air Art Festival, NS, Canada, July 2017
@ Winding River Art Gallery, Canada 150 xhibition and celebration, Truro, NS, Canada, June 2017
@Parrsboro International Plein air art festival, Parrsboro, NS, Canada, June 2017
@3Rd Annual Art Auction, Winding River Art Gallery, Canada, November 2016. 
@Queen West Art Crawl, Toronto, Canafa, October 2016
@Art World Expo Toronto 2015 - life painting performance - October 2015
@Group show ART OF FOOD - Urban Gallery, Toronto, On, Canada - September 2014