Sergey Laushkin
Sergey Laushkin
1953 was born in village of Preobrazhenka, Southern Urals, USSR 1973 graduated from the College of Art, Cheboksari, USSR Member of the Union of the Artists, Urals. Sergey Laushkin participated in more then 100 art shows in Russia and abroad COLLECTIONS Fine Arts Museum, Yekaterinburg, Russia Youth Museum, Yekaterinburg, Russia 2004 Microsoft firm, USA 2004 “S.P.A.S.” Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia Sergey’s works are full of life and emotion, created in a simple, straightforward fashion. His positive attitude towards life is expressed in every painting. Sergey has an incredible gift of finding new and exciting details in everyday life and expressing it in a way that gives his audience a sense of joy, wholeness and clarity. "Of all the aspects of painting - color, paint, strokes - I focus on the latter. My grandfather was a blacksmith and in my childhood I often watched iron heat and cool with hissing. Grandfather worked incredibly fast while the metal was hot and flexible. This is how I like to paint - fast, while my palette knife is "hot" and I feel the moment. The brush as an instrument is too "liquid" for me - it lacks density and contact with the canvas. Spreading paint on canvas gives me physical delight. I enjoy the sense of freshness in art, and I’m really happy when it is reflected in my paintings. There are like two esthetics in my woks, one is warm of the home, the other is urbanism. But no obvious border between them exists. I never change what I have created because I know I’ll never feel the way I did at that particular moment. It's the very moment that excites me."