Pyotr Semenov
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Pyotr Semenov was born 24 January 1956 in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad). His artistic education began in 1971 in the Leningrad School of the Arts. In 1980 he graduated from the Serov Art College, a prestigious St. Petersburg institution recently renamed the Rerikh Art College. After graduation he taught drawing, painting and composition at an arts school.
Semenov tried to continue his education at every opportunity. From 1984 to 1986 he studied at the studio of professor E. E. Moiseyenko, who taught at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. From 1986 to 1991, while teaching at the arts school and busily working on his own paintings, he took history courses at the St. Petersburg State University.
Currently Pyotr Semenov lives in St. Petersburg. He has had many exhibitions in St. Petersburg, and has been very well received in Europe, especially Germany. He is a member of the Artists' Union on the Russian Federation.
Semenov's preferred medium is watercolor, pure and simple. In the long years of work he has developed a unique style and an exquisite technique. His favorite subjects are botanicals and still lifes. Whether working on large expanses of paper, or on a square no bigger than one's palm, he creates beautiful, delicate living universes of flowers, butterflies, softly flaring curtains. The delicacy of his work, however, may be deceiving at first sight. As the viewer is drawn into the picture, superbly truthful textures of thorns, thistles and seashells come to life and reveal a new dimension of the softly-colored watercolors. Many of Semenov's works resemble the paintings of the Flemish masters in their search of metaphysical meanings of a group of beautiful objects.
