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Realistic acrylic painting of Georgy Kurasov, painted by the Dutch fine artist Paul Meijering - the original painting is 90 x 90 cm

Georgy Kurasov was born in 1958 in the USSR, then Leningrad. He still lives and works in the same place, but now the country is Russia and the city is called St Petersburg.

His hometown was irrational from the moment it was founded. Located at the same latitude as the southern shores of Alaska, in the swampy delta of the Neva River where no one had ever settled, this new capital grew up on the edge of a monstrous empire.
Here, on the completely flat surface carved by rivers, streams and canals, European architects, like pictures on a canvas, laid out straight avenues, streets and squares, built Greco-Roman porticoes and Baroque palazzos, erected sculptures and fountains, in the midst of something akin to permafrost where half the year is dominated by ice and frost and the other half by moisture and rain

Georgy spent his childhood on...

For almost 33 years now, Paul Meijering has been active with the paint brushes. As a 17- year old inspired youngster he joined the Academy of Arts in Enschede (Holland) in order to receive a native training in drawing- and painting technique. At that time (1980) the tendency of the abstract was running riot, and to his dismay and disappointment Paul found that the trade of the ancient masters was merely 'old hat', the realistic art being disregarded and looked down upon. After two years of useless botchery, there was only one conclusion to draw: "get autodidact, be a self-taught person!" Paul then left the academy to work for a living, but at the back of his mind there always loomed the passion of his life: to paint. At his spare time...