Rodion Gilmitdinov

The Motion Keeper, Original Painting

2025

Artist Comments
This expressive work portrays a rearing horse and rider with vivid energy and movement. Created with oil paint, pastel, acrylic paint, charcoal, and oil sticks, the piece combines bold gestures, layered texture, and warm atmospheric tones. The dynamic lines and decorative details evoke strength, tradition, and the powerful spirit of the rider in motion.

About the Artist
Artist Rodion Gilmitdinov creates paintings that capture cities through broken lines, dynamic colors, and spontaneous brushwork. His compositions emerge as visceral reactions to his environment rather than strict representations. "My art is like visual diaries; it is spontaneous, raw, often nearly uncontrollable," Rodion tells me. He grew up in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where rhythm and silence shaped him. After moving to New York, the city’s chaos fueled his work. Without formal mentors, Rodion honed his skills through observation and persistence. He works in his studios in Brooklyn and Miami, where charcoal dust covers the floor and music fills the air. When not making art, he walks through the city, observes people, and spends time with his family and dog.

Words that describe this painting: horse, rider, rearing horse, movement, dynamic, equestrian, gestural, animals, people, western, outsider, mixed media artwork, orange

The Motion Keeper
Rodion Gilmitdinov
Oil paint, pastel, acrylic paint, charcoal, and oil sticks on stretched canvas
Finished white edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2025
80 in. h x 51 in. w x 2 in. d
120 lbs. 0 oz.