Portrait of Don Zeno Saltini

Yaroslav Ponomarenko, Ukraine

To talk about me and my skills at fine arts I'd like to say I didn't have an intention to become an artist. Since my childhood drawing has been, and still is, so natural to me like a breath, that I never had to choose what to become. That's the reason why I am inspired 24/7. Anticipation of the creativity and the process itself helps me to be open for knowing and discovering life, my inner self and existence. All genres of painting and drawing are good for me. I highly value the state of peace and inspiration when I work on different subjects. Not less I love the feeling of realization that I give a birth to something beautiful which gives aesthetic pleasure to the spectator. Even if the only spectator is me. I graduated from National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2005 having finished Graphic Design Faculty and obtained Magister Degree. Despite this fact I normally work as a painter. My capacity for considerably detailed painting makes it graphic anyhow. I am sure that the details help to show individual tone of each image in a great extent as well as to reveal the highest degree of mastery. I like a statement which says that details make all the difference.