Vladimir Kush

Vladimir Kush (1965 - ) is a Russian-born painter, jewellery designer and sculptor. He resides in the USA. Kush predominantly works in the medium of oil painting on canvas or board, with many of the original paintings also sold as limited edition giclée-on-canvas prints, which contributed to his popularity. Although his style is frequently described as surrealist, Kush himself refers to it as "Metaphorical Realism" and cites the early influence on his style of Salvador Dalí's surrealist paintings as well as landscapes by the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. Sky, flowing water, and colour-saturated seascapes are frequent themes in his paintings.