Many thanks to Pastel Journal for awarding my piece “Shipwright” the Founders Award for 2023. It is an honor and a pleasure to receive such a generous nod. There is an accompanying article by Robert Carsten here.
Shipwright, pastel on toned paper, 26x40 in wins Founders Award
Painting available at Cutter & Cutter Fine Art.
Reinert Fine Art in Charleston, SC, is representing my work as of April, 2023. In the historic center of the beautiful Southern city, Ann and Rick Reinert (the gallery’s best-selling artist himself) represent a broad variety of Realist painters, including John Michael Carter, Christopher Zhang and Mary Qian. They have a phenomenal team, and I am very happy to be working with them.
Visit the gallery online HERE.
La Madruga, 34x54 in, the oil painting demonstration I did for the OPA convention, is one of my pieces at Reinert Fine Art
Working on La Madruga in Charleston at OPA Nationals 2023
Heartfelt thanks to the Art Renewal Center, who awarded my pastel “Laura Series: Glance” the BEST PASTEL of the 16th International Salon. Much appreciated!
Laura Series: Glance / Pastel on Paper / 22x30 in / Available
Hanging a portrait with a friend in Alabama
Melissa and I would like to wish each of you a productive, healthy, positive and memorable 2023.
We began the New Year with a trip to Alabama and Florida to deliver work and see people we care about. We spent the holidays with family, and now we’re ready to return to work. I am finishing mosaics in “The Bank” where we live in Chattanooga, and I am in the middle of a new series of work called “Veritas,” which began at the invasion of Ukraine.
Take care of yourself and your loved ones, and please stay in touch.
Daud
Daud Akhriev demonstrates portraiture with OPA Lunch and Learn. Artist Melissa Hefferlin assists. 29 April 2022
I am often asked what draws me repeatedly to the watery city.
From my and Melissa’s painting trip to the historic city during the pandemic.
Melissa and I attended the 2020 Art Renewal Center Exhibition and Awards Ceremony at Barcelona’s MEAM museum this past September. The event had been delayed by the pandemic, but was at last an in-person weekend to remember. It was good to be with the winning artists from around the world, and to meet the ARC staff in person. Melissa and I fell in love with the elegant city.
He’s one of the founders of the ARC, and made more than 50 trips to the Soviet Union to collect Russian art. We discovered many friends in common.
Under Robert Liberace’s image of the boxer, at the MEAM
His is the piece on the far right.
A sculpture we particularly loved.
In one of the MEAM exibition galleries.
Cutter & Cutter Fine Art hosts Melissa Hefferlin, Timur Akhriev and Daud Akhriev for an all-family exhibition in their St. Augustine gallery on Friday evening, January 22 & 23, 2021. For reasons of health safety, reservations are required.
The Hamilton Bank of Rossville, built sometime before 1940, will be the new American home base for my wife, Melissa Hefferlin, my son Timur Akhriev and myself. Heidi Hefferlin of HK Architects is watching over our efforts. I designed a new front door which was cut out of sheet steel, fabricated by Nathan and Wade at Set in Stone. Timur is painting the walls while I create mosaics for the entrance. The building has a new roof, which gives us time to proceed with repairs more leisurely. Here are some progress photos. You can click on the photos for more detail.
Sharing the Russian watercolor methods, Akhriev invites participants to a masterclass in the Italian hills outside Bergamo.
Refine your painting skills in beautiful Northern Italy.
I’m happy to be one of six artist showing mosaics at the Nashville airport for six months. There’s a reception on the 8th of April. If you’d enjoy attending, we’d be glad to have you! Let me know, though, since you must pre-register by the 3rd of April with TSA.
Daud Akhriev live demonsatration at the 2019 Virtuosos of the OPA exhibition.
Award of Excellence from Daniel Greene at Virtuosos of OPA
Akhriev and Melissa Hefferlin exhibit at the historic Union of Artists Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg, Russia, January 7-27, 2019.
I’m happy to participate in the OPA Western Regionals in Boulder, Colorado.
