Art Tuition: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture.
Art History
& Guided Tours

I’m a qualified Art Tutor offering personalized lessons and instruction to students in the London area. I’ve been teaching people of all ages and experience levels since 2012. I help students with A level, GCSE, University application and Degree level work

About me

Born in Moscow to migrating Composer parents, I grew up surrounded by music and art. I drew copies at the Pushkin Museum learning academic drawing with my Russian teacher as a teenager. I studied Italian and Russian film, literature and history at Ssees and picked up other languages while travelling. Today I have given art lessons part-time to children in London in Russian and Italian.

I developed a lasting passion for painting and sculpture and Historic carving in my studies at London Art colleges. I benefited from studying with Terry Jones, Marcus Cornish, and Antony Gormley. Over the last ten years I travelled around Europe, drawing buildings and classical sculpture in museums.

In 2007 I went to Romania to work at Mircea Roman's sculpture studio and to do an oak carving Symposium in Cucuteni. After graduating I was in Pietrasanta, where I studied the rudiments of marble carving with Brera Professor Pellegrinetti. In 2011 I did an Italian residency, carving a figure of St. Francis, shown in Assisi.

After the Drawing Year I rented studios, exhibiting, painting, sculpting and continued running life drawing workshops. In parallel I attended short courses at the Drawing School, modelling figures and making replica maquettes at the V&A and printmaking and drawing sculpture at the British Museum with Anne Dowker.

My experience

I am a popular art tutor with over 6 years of experience in London. Having studied in 4 top London Art Colleges and privately in Russia and Italy, I enjoy sharing my knowledge and skills in many aspects of Fine Art.

I have experience in tutoring groups and individuals of all ages and ability, helping people create a successful portfolio for application to Universities and Art schools, get through Art A level and GCSE work and helping build and present a great body of artwork.

I work in English, Russian and Italian fluently.

I have 4 years of experience working in school classrooms, and museums, art studios and function rooms and exhibitions.

I have taught art and art history at the London School of Russian Language and literature and have worked as an art technician at Thorpe House School in Buckinghamshire.

I also worked as an art teacher running life drawing classes through the Prince's Drawing School, London life Drawing Network and with medical students at King's college London.

My best experience is tutoring life drawing and anatomy, wood and stone carving, oil, acrylic and watercolour painting, classical academic drawing, clay sculpture, copying artworks in museums, etching, lettering and heraldic design, architectural styles.

Courses: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture

Strengthening existing skills

Freestyle Sketching and Sustained Drawing Workshop

Personalised attention
Painting in oil workshop

Guaranteed success

Contact me to book

Art History
and Guided Visits
to Cities and Museums

Museum Sketching

which I’ve been doing all my life, where I teach you ways of approaching art history from an insight that you cannot have from what meets the eye
Art Historical Tour of the National Gallery

Starting from the italian and Dutch Renaissance, moving through Spain and France. It’s the only museum that offers a chronological journey. Mythology, biblical stories, through to landscapes and narrative pictures from the impressionists. One of the best known collections of painting. If you’re lucky, on a Wednesday you can get into the basement, a secret display of pictures.
Trip around Westminster

looking at the history of the architecture, different styles, walking down past the horse guards towards Trafalgar square. I’m an experienced guide of architectural landmarks.
Baroque Tour of London

A walk through the City of 5 or 6 baroque churches by Christopher Wen leading up to St Paul’s Cathedral. This is quite a lot of walking.
Tour of the British Museum

I love it, I sometimes to twice a week. I’ve drawn so many of the sculptures. It’s all original objects which is quite rare. We can look at the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, and then go around all the temples from all over the Mediterranean. Jump across to Ancient Egypt, Africa and Asian Art. There’s also a wonderful prints and drawings room, where they do exhibitions about graphic art
Greenwich

You could get the clipper boat to Greenwich for the day, look around the palaces of Greenwich, the Queens House and the Maritime Museum and the painting hall, getting into the beginnings of baroque in England. Up to the Meridian point to see the Meridian. Then there’s a really big market with food stalls and a Cutty Sark ship