oil paintings
The Ark
Interior paintings about refuge, memory and the need for stillness
The Second Floor
Oil on canvas
108x134cm / 2025
Oil on canvas
108x134cm / 2025
The Ark is a series of paintings set within the walls of an imagined refuge. Empty rooms, temporary dwellings, childhood memories and fragments of everyday life come together in a world suspended between memory and imagination.
Selected Artworks
Alone the way with Seneca
Oil on canvas / 120x180 cm / 2025
Expedition
Oil on canvas / 130x170 cm / 2025
The Wrong Door
Oil on canvas / 140x210 cm / 2025
The Second Floor
Oil on canvas / 108x134 cm / 2025
Adolescence
Oil on canvas / 40x50 cm / 2025
Lifeguards
Oil on canvas / 80x70 cm / 2025
Strange games
Oil on canvas / 100x150 cm / 2025
Weight of light
Oil on canvas / 60x90 cm / 2025
The Ark is a series of paintings centred on the idea of interior space as a place of refuge.
The works are set within rooms, corridors, halls and temporary shelters that exist somewhere between memory and imagination. Fragments of childhood, moments of stillness, holiday recollections and everyday objects appear throughout the series, like pieces of a personal chronicle preserved within the walls of an old house.
The interior becomes more than architecture. It acts as a container for lived experience, holding traces of presence long after people have disappeared. Throughout the project, light moves through these spaces as a quiet protagonist, revealing details, shaping atmosphere and giving form to memory itself.
The Ark brings together a collection of imagined interiors where ordinary moments endure, suspended between absence and remembrance.
The works are set within rooms, corridors, halls and temporary shelters that exist somewhere between memory and imagination. Fragments of childhood, moments of stillness, holiday recollections and everyday objects appear throughout the series, like pieces of a personal chronicle preserved within the walls of an old house.
The interior becomes more than architecture. It acts as a container for lived experience, holding traces of presence long after people have disappeared. Throughout the project, light moves through these spaces as a quiet protagonist, revealing details, shaping atmosphere and giving form to memory itself.
The Ark brings together a collection of imagined interiors where ordinary moments endure, suspended between absence and remembrance.
About the artist.
Andrey Novikov is a painter and printmaker based in Reading, UK. His work focuses on memory, place and the emotional resonance of architecture, combining observation with imagined spaces and narratives.
His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, the Royal Watercolour Society Open, The Other Art Fair, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art and the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture.
Andrey Novikov is a painter and printmaker based in Reading, UK. His work focuses on memory, place and the emotional resonance of architecture, combining observation with imagined spaces and narratives.
His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, the Royal Watercolour Society Open, The Other Art Fair, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art and the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture.
