Slava Semerikov 1949–2023 Tree. 2020

Slava Semerikov was a graphic artist and watercolorist. He was born in Russia but studied and lived in Estonia from the early 1970s. He participated in numerous exhibitions, and his works are included in many collections.

Semerikov commented on his watercolors as follows: “The most important thing, in fact, is feeling. If you do not feel love for the object you depict, nothing will come of it. An ordinary watercolor is defenseless. Water and sunlight damage it. I have learned to treat watercolor in such a way that it does not even need to be placed under glass for exhibition. How I do this, I will not reveal, but I have seen no other works treated in this way anywhere else.”