Ilya AVAKOV

Born in the city of Murmansk, Russia in 1984 Ilya Avakov graduated from St. Petersburg State Art & Industrial Academy in 2007 specialising in industrial design.

Avakov worked as senior industrial designer for Rostselmash until 2013. While working as an industrial designer Avakov developed an interest for drawing and illustrating. "I started to make illustrations of cars on the computer, and then started to paint with acrylic" says Avakov. "At the moment my favourite technique is oils on canvas, although I do occasionally use acrylics and watercolour".

The beauty of automobile design is the source of inspiration for Avakov. His paintings and watercolor works are in many private collections in Russia.

Ilya Avakov is showing for the first time outside of Russia at the Royal Automobile Club's Art of Motoring exhibition in 2017.