Dmitri Danish

Dmitri Danish, a Ukrainian painter, was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1966. He was a born artist from the beginning, holding his first pencil when he first learned to walk but could not speak. His mother was also an artist and the first to discover Dmitry’s talent.

She saw her child express his thoughts, feelings and desires through his creation, so she began to communicate with her son through colors and shapes. For Danes, painting is as natural as breathing, eating or sleeping. By the age of 5, Dmitri began to take his first professional painting course; he was able to paint high-quality landscape, portraits, still life and abstract paintings. At the age of 13, he was admitted to a gifted children’s art school in Kharkiv. At the age of 15, he entered the Kharkiv State Academy of Arts.

Dmitri’s favorite genre is the urban landscape. He drew the cities he read in books, the cities he heard on the radio or in people’s conversations, and the cities he saw on stamps. He created new countries in his mind and painted their cities, streets, canals, doors and windows. Dmitri likes painting doors and windows most because of their symbolic appeal. They let him see and enter the unknown world, which he can’t do in reality. His imagination can take him to the unusual and magical world he saw in his dreams.

In college, Dmitri was fascinated by the city of Kharkiv, where he was born and grew up. He painted all kinds of buildings, wooden houses and walls, small cafes under huge old trees, and doors and windows of his southern city. His paintings depict Kharkiv as a warm and comfortable place to live.