This Friday, April 26, the artist Arthur Gain, a new professor at Barcelona Academy of Art, will offer a free demonstration of his pictorial process for all those interested. Organized by Barcelona Art Experience.

Arthur Gain is a Russian figurative artist currently based in Spain, near Barcelona. Though widely self-taught he has attended workshops and took private tuition from renowned painters and teachers, Steve Huston, Nick Alm, and Felicia Forte to name a few among others.

His path to becoming an artist was not direct. Being a passionate draftsman since childhood, he had made a successful career as a commercial illustrator and graphic designer in his youth, in his twenties he became creative director in advertisement industry working for major international clients. In his early thirties, he moved from Moscow to Asia and began a journey of self-discovery through practice of traditional authentic Yoga and Buddhist meditation which finally lead him to realize that representational art is his true vocation. Nowadays he continues to develop his craft as an artist and shares his knowledge and approach with his students in Barcelona Academy of Art, by giving workshops and private lessons and by making online instructional videos.

In the modern world where everything changes in a blink of an eye, the human spirit and nature are what brings it back together to the core of our existence. Constantly evolving and at the same time being utmost archaic, simultaneously mundane and divine, human consciousness is the greatest mystery and endless source of inspiration. Thus Arthur finds his main interest in people bringing out the unique characters of each individual he portrays with his art.