Central Asian Art

Yevgeny Leonkovitch Gardietsky

Yevgeny Leonkovitch Gardietsky was born in 1924 in the town of Chimkent on the border of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. He followed traditional Uzbek training by attending Binkov Art School (1946-51) and then the Ostrovsky Art Academy (1956-61).

In 1974 he was invited to work for a year with the great Maysenka at the Repin Studio in Saint Petersburg.

Yevgeny Leonkovitch believes that an artist must paint every day or his ability slips away. He paints often at his dacha in the countryside using soft, true colors that exist in nature. He is happiest at his dacha either painting or wine-making-using fruits he grows at home. What could be better, some oils, some fruits and a little wine in the countryside?