Pushka is a figurative painter using imagination to distort and intensify observed life, creating emotionally charged scenes.

His work explores states of flux: between likeness and distortion, memory and absence, body and landscape, and the personal and the mythic. His paintings seek to make presence felt, not only how things appear, but the psychological and often uncanny charge beneath them.

Materiality is central to his practice. Thick impasto, bleeding washes, and unstable mark-making operate as metaphors for fragility, unruliness, and transformation. While biography is often a starting point - including themes of grief, ancestry, and canal life - the aim is archetypal resonance, where individual images speak to shared emotional experience.

His work holds contradictions: tenderness and threat, beauty and unease, control and collapse. Rooted in observation as much as introspection, Pushka draws from life, collecting images from his surroundings while allowing them to be reshaped through memory, intuition, and imagination - working, as he describes it, with one eye open and one eye closed.

Visit Pushka's website at www.pushkastudio.co.uk for more information about him and his work.

Pushka is a figurative painter using imagination to distort and intensify observed life, creating emotionally charged scenes.

His work explores states of flux: between likeness and distortion, memory and absence, body and landscape, and the personal and the mythic. His paintings seek to make presence felt, not only how things appear, but the psychological and often uncanny charge beneath them.

Materiality is central to his practice. Thick impasto, bleeding washes, and unstable mark-making operate as metaphors for fragility, unruliness, and transformation. While biography is often a starting point - including themes of grief, ancestry, and canal life - the aim is archetypal resonance, where individual images speak to shared emotional experience.

His work holds contradictions: tenderness and threat, beauty and unease, control and collapse. Rooted in observation as much as introspection, Pushka draws from life, collecting images from his surroundings while allowing them to be reshaped through memory, intuition, and imagination - working, as he describes it, with one eye open and one eye closed.

Visit Pushka's website at www.pushkastudio.co.uk for more information about him and his work.