Roman Liapin was born on 1966 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). His life - and art - path was difficult and thorny. Petersburg artist, master of landscape, he started painting at the age of two. Yet at school, he surprised the teachers by the ability to transfer the depicted subjects’ mood onto the paper; studied with the painting teacher optionally, participated in school exhibitions.

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Later, being a student of Mukhina Leningrad Higher School of Arts and Industry, Roman Liapin received an invitation from an Italian collector and visited Rome for the first time in the early 1990s. The ancient city remained forever in the artist’s heart and left a tremendous impact on his work.

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Later the artist moved to Rome and continued his professional education at Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma) until 1998, after which he taught painting there. During that time, the artist was engaged in active creative work, held solo exhibitions, painted many pictures. In 2005, Liapin finally returned to St. Petersburg, where he continued to work in the genre of urban landscape. He regularly takes part in local exhibitions. Roman is a member of the Artists Union of Russia.

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In painting, the artist brings together the traditions of classical European school and Russian realism, contemporary Italian painting and obsession with Impressionism. Among his inspirers are such recognized masters as Vrubel, Andrew Wyeth, Jackson Pollock, Philip Malyavin, Nikolai Fechin.

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The masterly play of light and colour enables the artist to convey emotional states as contemplative, romantic, or cheerful and reassuring. The admiration for the classical culture, the ability to connect the life of megapolises with their historical past, to convey the fluidity of the city’s shapes or to present a specific view in detail, to show the eternal in the momentary – these are important components of Roman Liapin’s creative work.

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Website: https://liapinroman.com/

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