Born in 1967, Pavlov was first recognized for his talents at the age of five in his hometown of St. Petersburg, Russia. While enrolled in a painting program for gifted children at the Hermitage Museum, the curator himself took Pavlov under his wing. Years later, he went on to graduate as valedictorian from the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Art.

The academic training of his youth gave way to a modern exploration of romantic abstraction. Through travels in France and Spain, Pavlov was influenced by the Art Nouveau style of painting. He uses an impressionistic play of light to synthesize the beauty of a woman in beautiful surroundings.

The art of Misti Pavlov combines the brilliant color palette and vivid movement of a Russian master’s brushstroke. Pavlov’s love of expressive color and gentle understanding of the female subject is abundantly clear in each of his paintings. Pavlov’s paintings are now in the permanent collection at the Museums of Contemporary Art in Russia and Belarus. His unlikely fusion of styles, and his innovation of techniques gives Pavlov’s work such an impact.