Vahan Topchyan, 59, a painter/illustrator, is a Gyumri native, and studied both at the Gyumri School of Painting and the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute. He has been shown internationally, from Moscow to Tehran to the UK. Meet the Chagall of Armenia! Though to be clear, Vahan's dreamy, subtle washes of watercolor and acrylic over pencil and pastel are purely his own inventions. His characters do whatever they like: cats serve as hats, birds sit in pockets, princesses play the tuba. Enter Vahan's fairy tale world: each time, he'll tell you a different story about the same painting!
Vahan's illustrations can be found in Armenian and other country fairy tale books.
Want to visit Vahan's studio? E-mail us at arttoursarmenia@gmail.com.
