Today I want to tell you about an artist and his exhibition, which I was lucky to visit.

It was sunny, unusually hot day for the end of April! Several steps, wooden doors of the Moscow Library, and from a dusty and noisy street you get to a completely different, unreal world of creativity of Sergey Usik.

He is an artist of international level. He lives and works in St. Petersburg.

It is called "Maitre of Pastels" .

He has been working in this technique for over 25 years. It all started with a box of Rembrandt oil pastels, presented one day.

He is an architect, but still he has not stop drawing. Later, he was desperately trying to catch up, as it seemed to him, missed years of practice, working himself and with the help of professionals.

Yet the creative soul took him over. Years of hard work and self-improvement turned him into a fine landscape painter with a solid international reputation.

The exhibition presented few works, only 40... Two topics that alternate in the works of the artist immediately catch your eye: urban and natural landscapes. So, what is especially interesting: urban landscapes are mostly cloudy, gloomy-gray, tired... But nature... There is a sense of life and movement. The richness of color! Quite a different mood as well.

Spring at the St. Nicholas Church. 2014

Nevsky Prospect. Rain.

Nevsky Prospect. 2015

Evening near the Kazan Cathedral. 2011

The bells of St. Nicholas Church. Sunny day. 2013

Winter evening. Park near the Smolny Institute. 2012

Night. Big Avenue. 2011

St. Andrew's Cathedral. 2010

Big Avenue. 2010

Winter Evening. Vasilyevsky Island, Line 15. 2014

Summer in St. Petersburg. Bolshaya Morskaya Street. 2013

Neva. Frost. 2010

The Beginning of Spring on Kalinkinsky Bridge.

Summer Day. Neva. 2004

Sketch. Nostalgia. 2013

Spring Water. 2014

Spring is coming. 2017

Northern May. 2007

The Last Days of Winter. 2016

Autumn Water. 2001

Lindens. Autumn. Pavlovsk. 2014

Autumn in the Аorest. 2011

Against the Sun. Dacha. 2015

Solovki. Tide. Kutuzov Island. 2016

Forest in October.

October. Dacha. 2017

Spring in Pushkin. Fedorovsky Town. 2014

Morning in Winter Forest.

Griboedov Canal.

Yusupov Garden.

Dark Forest. 2007

Мontenegro. Kotor Bay. 2011

Winter Forest. 2017

Old Willow. 2008

Venice. 2008

La Rochelle. Evening. 2007

Santa Maria del Mar. 2015

Catania. Sicily. 2011

Bologna. Gloomy day. Main square. 2012

I really hope that these works did not leave you indifferent.

Each work can be viewed endlessly, marveling at the skill of the artist!