Location: United States
Poul A. Costinsky was born in former USSR, in city of Lvov, on border with Poland. He finished Lvov’s art school, class of painting, in 1982. Later he moved to Moscow, where he participated in then underground art scene.
In 1998, he moved to Seattle, and inspired by city’s artistic energy, started new series of paintings, which culminated in his first show on American soil, in Pitcairn Scott Gallery, in April 2002. Since then he regularly shows in the gallery and various other venues in Seattle. His art is found in private collections around the world, and even on some book covers.
He mostly paints oil on canvas, but sometimes uses other media like japanese ink on paper, acrylics, spray paints, and sometimes even a photo camera. His art reflects on human condition in our hectic age, the nature of beauty of body, soul and nature around us.
His art credo comes as a quote from a Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, who, once asked how to become a real artist, answered: “if you can help it, don’t”.
Probably Poul just cannot help it.
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