Zhelnov N.V. was born in 1967. Lives and works in Moscow. Higher education - art. In 1996 he graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. Course of Vasnetsov A.V. Member of the Moscow Union of Artists since 1997. Works in the technique of oil painting, easel graphics, printmaking. Since 1994 he has been participating in exhibitions.

First prize at the youth exhibition (Moscow Union of Artists)

First prize of the Moscow Union of Artists for the series of works "The Gospel Cycle"

Second prize of the Moscow Union of Artists for the series of etchings

Conceiving one picture, the artist paints another, and the viewer sees something else. The idea should not put pressure on the artist. The initial beginning is the will to create. The artist, as a person who creates the world, must have an internal will to create that does not depend on anything. It is not the picture that is important, but the way of thinking, not the distances, but the environment. Nature changes forms. What is correct and understandable today will be called absurd tomorrow. To get closer to where faith begins, to go beyond the depicted. To trust in beauty, material, to awaken the relic consciousness.