Valeriy Grachov was born in Archangelsk, Russia in 1949. He went to school in Leningrad in 1956 and later moved to Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine with the family. He left high school in Kiev and entered Kiev?s Institute of Design and Architecture in 1966 with following graduation in 1972. The artist traveled, resided and worked in many places over mountains in Central Asia, Baikal, Far East, on the islands in Japanese Sea. He lived and worked in Jyvaskyla (Finland) in 1988, Trenton (USA) in 1989-90, Prague (Czech Rep.) in 1974-75. Presently lives in Kiev, Ukraine.
Publications:
1. Travel News Magazine, No. 10-11, pp. 37-40, Ukraine, 2003
2. Global Vision Platform, Netherlands, 2005
3. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 4-5, USA, Jul/Aug 2006
4. International Artist, No. 52, pp. 110-119, Canada/USA, Dec/Jan 2007
5. Fine Art Magazine, pp. 44-45, USA, Spring, 2007
6. Harvests of New Millennium, Volume 1, Number 1, India, January 2008
7. The MAG, ArtNow Online, USA, April 2008
8. Art Business News, USA, July 2008
9. L'Art de l'Aquarelle, n. 6, France, September 2010
10. Pratiques Des Art, n. 23, France, May 2011
11. The Art of Watercolour (The magazine for watercolourists), France, April 2014
12. Pratiques Des Art, n. 133, France, March 2017
13. Where ART Lives Magazine, Volume 3 Number 2, USA, April 2017
14. Artfinder Catalogue Summer 2017, p.14, UK, June 2017