Paintings from the Caucasus Now on Saatchi Art

I have recently updated my profile on Saatchi Art and added a selection of paintings from different periods of my work in Georgia.

The works now shown there include paintings connected to the Caucasus, Tusheti, Khevsureti, riders, refugees, borderlands, and post-Soviet memory — themes that have accompanied my work for many years.

My favorite subject: The remote Caucasus and Georgia

Some of these paintings were created from direct experience in the mountains of Georgia. Others grew out of older memories, photographs, encounters, and stories from the 1990s and 2000s: horsemen crossing passes, people returning home, figures moving through uncertain landscapes, and the long shadow of history in the Caucasus.

Saatchi Art is not a replacement for seeing paintings in real life. A painting always has its own physical presence: scale, surface, weight, texture, and silence. But it is a useful platform to make works visible to an international audience and to give collectors a first overview.

My Caucasus Theme at Saatchi Art

The updated selection includes, among others, works such as The Turkish Rider, From Atsunta Pass to Girevi, Khevsur Returning to Shatili, Rider Crossing Abano Pass, Ukrainian Paratrooper, and The Horse Thief and His Wife.

For me, these paintings are not illustrations of travel or folklore. They are fragments of a larger visual world shaped by the Caucasus — by movement, exile, resistance, friendship, memory, and the strange beauty of places where history never feels far away.