Kirill Maksjura

Visual Art – Melbourne

I was born in Latvia and moved to New Zealand with my mother at 8 years old, and after moving to Melbourne 2.5 years ago, its safe to say this place is now home, the city of many opportunities. As a kid, I loved to draw a lot, an obsession with copying images came at an early stage which helped me develop my own technique of replicating objects and colors, to this day that obsession still continues and I have realized that a lot still has to be learnt to master such techniques. Being a self taught artist I feel that I need to paint with different mediums and different styles so there\'s no repetitiveness, maybe its just me but having a break from one medium can bring in new techniques that are learnt from the other. The ultimate dream for me would be to just paint paintings for clients in the space of my own home, doing one off paintings for clients today is just a taste of that dream.