Biography, exhibitions

Pavlos Golik – professional artist.

The main themes of his work are portrait, landscape, and still life.

The artist’s love for his homeland and for Greece is the source of his inspiration and the subject of his works. These include seascapes and the sea in all its diversity and beauty. These works are infused with bright southern sunlight and a special warmth of spirit.

Pavlos Golik was born in the city of Evpatoria, on the western coast of the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine. Pavlos has Greek roots. Now living in Greece, he creates local landscapes that reflect his love for the sun, the sea, and Greek culture—so similar to his homeland, for which he retains many warm memories.

Pavlos Golik is a naturally gifted artist who has the ability to convey the character and unique personality of each individual, contributing to the creation of distinctive portraits. This is not merely a reproduction of a face—the artist “channels” each person’s personality through his soul, creating portraits that reveal all his talents and skills.

The artist works in various techniques and materials—oil, acrylic, and watercolor. The choice of material and the form of presenting the image are usually determined by the subject, personal impressions, and the emotions the master wishes to convey to the viewer through his work.

Impressionism with elements of associative forms is the current direction of the artist’s painting.

Today, his painting is developing within the framework of a project under the general title “IMPROVISATIONS ON IMPRESSIONS” This project was created more than 10 years ago as a new approach to expressing creative ideas and emotions.

His compositions embody images that express his experiential impressions of the real world and carry meanings perceived on the level of emotions, imagination, and intuition. He places special emphasis on the search for color solutions that shape the emotional perception of his creative ideas, without focusing on the concreteness of visual forms as in the past. In his works, he seeks new plastic forms and painterly techniques to express different creative ideas.

However, regardless of the technique and style in which he works, he always relies on the traditions of 20th-century Russian and Ukrainian realist painting.

The works are held in private collections in EU countries, Israel, and the USA.
Some works are kept in the reserves of the Evpatoria Museum of Local History.

Currently, Pavlos Golik works in Athens.

He continues to create and self-improve, experimenting with different forms of self-expression, which can be observed in his most recent works.

Creative Biography

From an early age, Pavlos showed talent and interest in visual arts.

1969–1975: Studied visual arts at the Cultural Center of Yevpatoria.

1975–1979: Studied drawing and painting remotely as part of a four-year program at the Free People's University in Moscow. During his studies, he worked for two years in Moscow and attended private lessons in drawing and painting under Lomov Stanislav Petrovich, a renowned author of textbooks on fundamental drawing and painting techniques used in educational institutions of the USSR.

1980–1985: Completed his education at the State Academy of Design and Arts in Kharkiv, Ukraine

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1985–1994: Worked in a Crimean art collective under the Union of Artists of Ukraine.

1994: Became an independent artist.

1994–2024: Participated in group and solo exhibitions in Greece, Ukraine, and Russia.

2018: Elected a member of the Union of Artists of Russia.

Since 2022, he has been working in Athens, Greece.

Held several solo exhibitions in Greece:

Alexandroupoli – “Archaeophilon” Museum

Alexandroupoli – Art Gallery “KYTARO”

Soufli (Greece) – Exhibition dedicated to the 5th International Symposium on the theme “Myth as an Image of Power, Creation, and Cultural Revival”

In Greece, he created the painting "Poseidon – Medusa: The Beginning of Transformation" in 2012, commissioned by the 5th International Congress of Greek Culture, and organized three solo exhibitions:

The artist participates in painting exhibitions in Greece and Russia. His works are found in private collections in Greece, Ukraine, Russia, former Soviet Union countries, EU countries, Israel, and the USA. Three of his works are preserved in the Local History Museum of Yevpatoria.