Arthur Gain is a Russian figurative artist living in Barcelona, Spain. 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 become 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 explore his artistic voice by creating his personal work and working on commissions and shares his knowledge with his students in Barcelona Academy of Art, by giving workshops and private lessons and by making online instructional videos.