Alexey Adonin

Alexey Adonin is a Belarus-born, Israel-based painter whose work explores the meeting point of abstraction and surrealism. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he develops his paintings through an intuitive process of spontaneous marks, layered surfaces, and gradual refinement. His compositions often suggest imagined landscapes, inner states, and ambiguous spaces that invite personal interpretation. Adonin’s work has been exhibited locally and internationally and is held in private collections worldwide.

Artist’s Statement

Alexey Adonin paints in oil on canvas to explore the threshold between abstraction and surrealism, where inner experience begins to alter what we think we see. His process usually begins without a fixed image in mind. Through spontaneous brushwork, layered textures, and gradual refinement, forms emerge and a coherent visual world takes shape. He is interested in creating spaces that feel both familiar and uncertain—places that suggest landscape, memory, atmosphere, or psychological presence without settling into a single narrative. Rather than illustrating a specific story, he leaves room for ambiguity, allowing viewers to enter the work through their own associations, emotions, and perceptions. For Adonin, painting is a way of discovering images that lie somewhere between intuition and recognition, chaos and order, the visible and the imagined.