There are Ladoga, Vuoksa, rocks...

The artist’s favorite theme is “portraits” of Russian nature, in which he strives for depth and narrative imagery, attaching great importance to the pictorial language of his works.

Corners of familiar landscapes appear in the author’s paintings at characteristic moments of their existence and are revealed through emotional comprehension of light and color. Ilya Kozlov looks for the iconic in the familiar, while consciously avoiding any shocking originality, believing that natural truth is always fresh and original in itself, you just need to look closely at it.

His landscape is laconic and heartfelt. Content, the transmission of the breath of life, is what is dear to him and what he strives for. Light, air, space are the components of image formation by which the author’s paintings are unmistakably recognizable.

In works of this kind one always feels the presence of the personality of their creator. Ilya Kozlov is seen in his works as an artist of deep soul, capable of conveying in such a complex genre the feeling of a person cut off from nature, or, conversely, returning to his native land.

According to Ilya Kozlov, the author’s task is to overcome his own limitations and individualism through comprehending the entire palette of creative ideas of our time and finding his place in this palette. Only then can a historically and artistically meaningful work be born that will respond to the current needs of society and remain in the history of art.