Alexander Volkov

Alexander Volkov was born in 1964 in Tashkent, later moving to Leningrad with his family. After a failed attempt to enter the Valentin Serov Art School, Alexander graduated from the Leningrad College of Nautical Instrumentation. A self-taught painter, Volkov started selling his canvases by the Ekaterininsky Garden on the Nevsky Prospect, presently joining the Free Artists Association formed under the auspices of the Alexander Blok Library at 20, Nevsky Prospect.

Volkov’s semi-abstract paintings hinge on the contrast between the bold and vibrant colour spots and the grey or green background. The artist is fond of portraying St. Petersburg, its everyday life, vehicles, and citizens. The painter has a distinctive vision of the city: the pure architectural beauty of its centre harmoniously blends in his works with the rush of traffic, the tangle of electric cables in the narrow visible gap of the city sky, and the bright sprinkling of traffic lights and road signs.