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IGOR SHIPILIN

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Igor Shipilin is a painter, a water colorist and a graphic designer born in 1961 in Crimea, Sevastopol. He is educated in the field of arts including the Ilya Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad, and the Moscow Academy of Printing and has been involved in professional exhibitions since 1986.

Igor Shipilin is considered to be one of the leading contemporary landscape masters of the region. His paintings represent the romance of Crimean landscape, contemplative scenes of historical significance and nature. His work has been influenced by the late Crimean impressionist, Feodor Zakharov.

Shipilin is an active member in the Crimean art scene – a member of National Union of Artists of Ukraine and a chairman of the Sevastopol Union organization as well as the curator for the traditional open air in Sevastopol. In 2008 – 2009 he received acknowledgment from the State Russian Museum for his efforts in organizing several projects and exhibitions for Crimean artists. He has been exhibiting actively since 1989, including a series of exhibitions in London. His works are held in collections in The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Sevastopol Art Museum of M.P. Kroshitsky, and Simferopol State Art Museum.

What makes Shipilin’s works unique? His art parades natural and historical attractions as traditionally portrayed by artists from different eras, but at a first glimpse inconspicuous areas with a leisurely pace of life in small towns. These are the places where the artist spent his childhood and youth, those places where you always want to go back to reflect and stop the running of time, to draw strength and inspiration in healing the soul with the simplicity of the usual life and environment - that’s the world of the works of Shipilin. Needless to say that he’s an incorrigible romantic. Crimea that Igor Shipilin is masterfully looking to show us is obviously real, but at the same time poeticized by the artist. There are no dramatic conflicts and psychological bursts, sometimes even sounding of sad notes of nostalgia, a retreat in solidarity with the author - life is amazing in any form.

The artist has a deep appreciation for the open air work. His paintings can be considered as psychological landscape, where by showing

his native land, he tells the audience about the eternal – motherland and faith. His paintings are a fusion of real places (cozy streets, small yards, old houses, the mountains, the sea), of memories from the past and present, and his own imagination. What is important for Igor Shipilin is to translate the particular mood of Crimea. He has said to be creating the same work throughout his life, painting the same motif.

“My task is simple, to convey the image of old Crimea, comfort, and the warm blue sea”.

The ability of the master - to see the beauty everywhere and adjust it on his canvas, based on his emotions, feelings and memories, this is what Shipilin does. As a result, ordinary and familiar scenes are transformed into memorable and original compositions.

In front of Igor Shipilin’s works, the viewer cannot help but continue the artist’s “story” about the simple and precious moments of life that remain with us forever.

SEASONSPAINTINGS/ IGOR SHIPILIN

1Leila Tairova. Art Critic

SEPTEMBER. APPLESoil, canvas,50x40, 2015

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SPRING. PLUM BLOSSOMS GENTLY oil, canvas,80X80, 2013

AUTUMN. YELLOW LEAVES FALLING QUIETLYoil, canvas,80x80, 2013

WINTER. SNOWFALL BY EVENINGoil, canvas,80x80, 2010

APRIL. CHERRY IN BLOSSOMS. WICKET GATEoil, canvas,50x40, 2015

CHRYSANTHEMUMS. HOUSE IN SOKOLINOYEoil, canvas,60x80, 2015

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SPRING IN VASILEVKAoil, canvas,50x80, 2011

OLD WALNUToil, orgalit,50x70, 2015

SEVASTOPOL. ALMONDS OVER THE SOUTHERN BAY oil, canvas,50x30, 2015

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BLACK SEA. DRIFTWOOD oil, canvas,85x100, 2014

EVENING LIGHT. BALACLAVA oil, canvas,60x80, 2013

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VINEYARD. EVENINGoil, canvas,60x80, 2015

LILAC BUSH. EVENING IN HERSONISSOS oil, canvas,80x100, 2012-2015

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SLOPES OF KARA DAGH oil, canvas,40x120, 2004-2014

RAINY DAY. LILACoil, orgalit,70x80, 2015

EVENING. LANDSCAPE WITH A GOAT. AUTUMN oil, canvas,70x60, 2013-2015

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SEVASTOPOL IN APRIL oil, canvas,50x70, 2015

A STREET IN SEVASTOPOLoil, orgalit,25x35, 2015

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A BOUQUET OF WILDFLOWERS oil, orgalit,50x40, 2015

FISHERMEN’S BOOTH AT BALAKLAVA. SEPTEMBERoil, canvas,50x80, 2014-2015

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SPRING IN HERSONISSOSoil, canvas,50x60, 2009

HERSONISSOS. VIEW OF THE BASILICAoil, canvas,35x50, 2015

HERSONISSOS. OLD HOUSE WITH CYPRESSoil, canvas,30x40, 2015

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MAY EVENING. CHESTNUT IN BLOSSOMoil, canvas,50x80, 2015

PERSIMMON HAS BLOOMED. OCTOBERoil, canvas,60x70, 2014

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SAINT PETERSBURG. ETUDEoil, cartun,19x27, 2013

ABU DHABI. ETUDEoil, canvas,14x20, 2014

SEA SHORE. HERSONISSOS IN APRILoil, canvas,70x80, 2015

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IMPROVISATION. WINTER PALETTEmixed media,43x49, 2015

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IGOR SHIPILIN/ BIOGRAPHY:Honored Artist of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.In 2014 Awarded diploma and the gold medal in 2015 by Russian Academy of Arts in exhibition-competition “Artists of Russia for Clean Water”

Shipilin artworks are held in The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Sevastopol Art Museum of M.P. Kroshitsky, Simferopol State Art Museum, and as well in private collections all over the world.

Born in Sevastopol (Crimean Peninsula), in October 15th, 1961

1977 - graduated from Sevastopol Children’s Art School1983 - became member of the creative association “Working Palette”1990-1991 - attended Repin Institute in Leningrad Since 1994 member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (NUAU)1999 - graduated from The Moscow State Academy of PrintingSince 2001 the organizer of the “League of Watercolors of Crimea”2007-2009 chairman of the Sevastopol Organization NUAU 2008 - Award winner of the field “Fine Arts” of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, for a series of Crimean landscapes 2011 - Honorary Diploma by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the SSGA “For contribution to the development of culture and art of the city of Sevastopol”

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:1992 - Watercolors “Leningrad series”, Art Museum M.P. Kroshitsky. Sevastopol1996 - Exhibition, Business and Cultural Center. Sevastopol2001 - Gallery “Art”, Art Museum M.P. Kroshitsky. Sevastopol2002, 2004, 2006 - Gallery “Les Oreades”, Central House of Artists. Moscow2005 - Exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of the Crimea. Simferopol2007 - Gallery “Petley Fine-Art”. London2007 - Educational center “Vorontsov House”, branch of the Academy of Sciences. Simferopol2008 - “Life by the Sea “, Exhibition Hall National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Kiev 2009 - Gallery “Les Oreades”, Central House of Artists. Moscow2010 - “The Old New Thing”, Saratov University, an educational center “Virtual branch”. Sevastopol2013 - “12 months”, Art Museum M.P. Kroshitsky. Sevastopol2014 - “Somewhere in the Crimea”, MD-Art Gallery. Moscow 2015 - “Life by the Sea “, N2N Gallery. Abu Dhabi2015 - “Sunny Days”, Gallery “MD-Art”. Moscow

Participated in over 130 exhibition group and individual since 1989. Over 25 recorded Plain Airs.