Igor and Marina

There are two galleries of our oil paintings: realistic portraits on the abstract background: "Renaissance That Never Was" and gallery of the abstract images: "Unindentified Painted Objects".

We are artists, which is an excellent thing. We are married, also an excellent thing. We work together- not necessarily an excellent thing. What do we mean by this? Clearly it’s not that we don’t find inspiration in each other’s work or ideas. However, on a practical level, it’s hard to avoid some problems. First of all, though we have been together for twenty years, whenever we work together on a painting, we spend most of our time arguing. Perhaps this isn’t all that surprising…

In the work of Igor Kozlovsky and Marina Sharapova, time is not merely linear; it’s an element to manipulate, to fold into strikingly original compositions. In each canvas we sense a narrative is implied, but we always fall short of piecing it together – it’s like waking up from a dream…