Timur D’Vatz, a Russian artist, fuses ancient legends and symbols with a modernist style and vibrant colours. Taking inspiration from ancient histories, early Byzantine art and medieval tapestries, D’Vatz explores core motifs and ideas that he believes have gained meaning and significance with each historical transition. Drawing on these styles and referencing literature, religion and astrology, D’Vatz’s paintings create their own modern mythology intrinsically linked with the recognisable iconic traditions of medieval painting. 

 

‘I see mythology as the starting point for an inner journey through outer experience. In order to go forwards we must go back to our roots; the journey forward is always a return. Myth is a poetic interpretation of human knowledge.’

 

The subject of the hunt is a symbolic and dynamic motif throughout his works; the hunt can be a quest, a journey or the search for ourselves. Through the use of elongated bodies, his paintings seek to show the exhilaration of movement within a static image; a forward thrust towards an end goal.