Andrey Mochalin
Born in 1970.In 1990 graduated from the Suzdal Art and Restoration School (Tempera and Oil Painting Department).Joined the Russian Artists’ Unionin 1998. Received numerous Russian Artists’ Union awards for participation in art shows.Mochalin mostly works with tempera and acryl paints. The artist remains faithful to art documentary style and followsthe Russian landscape tradition.

Andrej Mochalin was born in 1970 in Vladimir. In 1990 he graduated from the Department of Tempera and Oil Restoration at the Suzdal College of Art Restoration. Almost immediately he began to show his works in city, state, and national exhibitions, and in 1998 joined the Union of Russian Artists.
The Union of Russian Artists has recognized his participation in the following national exhibitions: “Young Russian Artists” (2002), “Cultural Inheritance” (2003), “Renaissance” (2005), and “The Image of the Motherland” (2006.) In 2005Mochalin was awarded a prize in the sphere of arts and literature for his series “Native Spaces.”
In a large flow, among multicolored whirl of works the eye captures laconic paintings with a restrained colour range. Monochromic pallete and a smoothed serfase of brush-strokes make up the special colour and familiar to the eye motives create a special mood, some state of admiration. When solving a certain task any artist tries to convey the world, he transformed into a painting to the audience. One can hardly be surprised by the realistic trend in art, since the eye is so sated and the variety is so huge. But what makes up stop at such familiar and native motives?
Just like after a noisy concert of trendy music quiet sounds of classic music please the ear, in painting the eye is pleased with nature, its elusive versatility, and subtle gradation of shades.
Andrey Mochalin belongs to the generation of young Vladimir artists that follow the traditions of Russian realistic landscape. The technique of tempera and acrylic paints makes it possible for him to most accurately convey his personal mood, since it is their special velvet and restraint that stipulate