Born in 1962 into the family of a famous Russian artist, Leonid Demin, Andrey Demin was sent as a ten-year-old to art school where, surrounded by more experienced artists, he worked mainly on paintings of still-life.
This experience influenced Andrey’s work right from the start. As he says himself: ‘I saw my first paintings even before I could walk. I communicated with professional painters even before I learnt to talk. What else could I have become, if not an artist?’Now widely exhibited, Andrey first began displaying his work in top galleries in Mayfair, London, in the late 1990’s. Andrey’s travels across the U.K., Germany, Switzerland and Ireland have influenced his landscape painting. He is particularly inspired by the beauty of the Irish landscape and by Irish mythology. As befits an artist trained in the traditional Russian impressionist style, his canvases are swathed in light. The misty colours of the Irish countryside lend themselves perfectly to Andrey’s atmospheric depiction of nature. These serene landscapes have a wistful air of innocence.
That these beautiful paintings are straight-forward, extremely well-painted and quite accessible, perhaps contributes to Andrey’s international success. Andrey Demin’s paintings are widely exhibited and collected, both within the UK and internationally.
