Born in 1980, in a family of peasants, and spent his childhood in the village of Ersubaykino, Alametevsky District.
1999 - graduated from the Department of Art and Graphic Arts of Leninogorsk Music and Art Pedagogical College
2003 - graduated from the Faculty of Art and Pedagogics of the Bashkir State Pedagogical University (Ufa)
Since 2004 - worked at the Department of Advertising and Design of the Urban Environment
The artist is the member of the Union of Artists of Russia and the Republic of Tatarstan. He actively participates in plein airs, art fairs and art competitions. His artworks regularly appear at city, republican and regional exhibitions.
Selected exhibitions:
2008 - 10th Regional Exhibition "The Large Volga"
2009 - personal exhibition, Alametyevsk Art Gallery
2013 - exhibition on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Tatneft company
2013 - personal exhibition, Alametievsk
Art critic's comment
The artist masterly applies both classical
technology of oil painting and watercolor technique. He is especially attracted
to Realism as artistic method. In his paintings, Nikolay Petrov focuses on nature
and environment, rural and urban landscapes of his native Republic of Tatarstan
and the city of Alametyevsk, which is associated with oil production. The artist
seeks to convey the rhythm of life of the oil capital of Tatarstan, where contemporary
architecture and broad streets with busy traffic contrast to the cozy courtyards,
historical buildings and sculptural monuments.
The artist has chosen plein air as his
major creative method. He often makes paintings from nature completely. As a
result, there is lyrical air of Nikolay Petrov’s paintings, combined with freshness
and purity of colour. In his student years, the artist has perfectly mastered
the technique of impressionistic study, which allows maintaining freshness of
perception of the beauties of nature. These features are also characteristic of
Nikolay Petrov’s portraits, still lifes and thematic compositions. However, the
main purpose of the artist's observations of nature is not the desire to copy reality,
but rather to reveal their own lyrical vision of the world through realistic
painting techniques.
