Sergei Zaitsev

Sergei Zaitsev

Fog on the River, 1999 | 10 x 14 "

 

 

 

 

 

Sergei Zaitsev

Soft Sunset, 1999 | 8 x 11 "

 

 

 

 

 

In 1996, Zaitsev was honored with a major one-man exhibition at Moscow Central House of Artists. His reputation for romantic landscapes has won him the admiration and support of art collectors around the globe.

A pilot, trained at the aviation school in Gorki, who left his aviation career behind to enroll as a student of Art School in Yaroslaval to focus on traditional Russian landscape painting Sergei Zaitsev was born in Perm, Russia in 1963.

His short-lived training as a pilot from 1980-1983 was provided at the aviation school in Gorki. It was during his time as an aviation technician at Gorki airport that he attended the studio of the locally renowned landscape painter, Alexei Rugov.

Zaitsev immediately adapted his own style of landscape painting featuring the luminous subtlety of the atmosphere as seen in fog, reflected light, and twilight. He gained great popularity as a painter his reputation growing along with the body of his work.

By 1987 Sergi left his aviation career behind for good when he enrolled as a student of Art School in Yaroslav, his focus on traditional Russian landscape painting. He stayed at Art School until 1991.

Currently represented exclusively in Moscow there is a constant waiting list of clients eager to acquire his latest works. Today Sergei Zaitsev lives and works in the ancient town of Yaroslavl.