Vitaly Moiseev is a UK-based contemporary artist whose practice brings together painting, relief, engraving, gilding, and tactile surface. Over many years of experimentation with material, light, and sculptural form, his work has developed into Emboss Art — a contemporary visual language in which painting gains physical presence beyond the flat surface.

Professional updates and process notes:
LinkedIn: Vitaly Moiseev

Artistic Practice

  • Between 2000 and 2025, Vitaly Moiseev developed an extensive independent practice across sculptural surfaces, gilding techniques, decorative relief, and bespoke commissions for private interiors, including works created for private collectors and yacht interiors.

  • This long period of experimentation with texture, surface, light, and handcrafted materials formed the foundation for Emboss Art — a sculptural painting approach in which image, relief, and spatial presence come together.

  • His current practice explores the relationship between form, silence, light, and tactile surface through layered contemporary painting.

  • Emboss Art is not an applied decorative method, but a visual language in which surface, relief, and image become inseparable.

Representation

  • 2026–present — Selected works represented on Artsy by Chrissy Moore Art Advisory, UK

Selected Exhibitions & Projects

  • 2026 — RESONANCE, TSB Gallery, Online Exhibition — Selected Artist; exhibited work: Heart’s Melody

  • 2026 — The Horton Summer Exhibition, The Horton Arts Centre, Epsom, UK — Selected Artist; exhibited work: The Metamorphosis of the Golden Butterfly

  • 2025 — London Art Biennale, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK — Selected Artist; exhibited work: The Scent of Temptation

  • 2025 — The Holy Art, London Physical Exhibition, 62 Wood Lane, London, UK — Exhibiting Artist: exhibited work: Heart’s Melody

  • 2000 — Noah’s Ark / The Millennium Ark, collaborative engraving project — Contributing Artist: individual engraving incorporated into the collective work, now held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

  • c. 1999–2000 — Five Wood Engravers, Chertsey Museum, Chertsey, Surrey, UK — Five-artist group exhibition

  • 1999–2000 — 62nd Annual Exhibition, Society of Wood Engravers, UK — Member and Exhibiting Artist; exhibited work: Countess Religion

  • 1998 — National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK — John Purcell Paper Award; exhibited work: The Past in the Future or the Pain of Chernobyl

  • 1998 — The Contemporary Print Show, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, UK — Exhibiting Artist: exhibited work: Leviathan

  • 1997 — 4th Open Print Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol, UK — Selected Artist: exhibited work: The Pain of Chernobyl

  • 1996–97 — 59th Annual Exhibition, Society of Wood Engravers — Selected Artist; touring exhibition, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford

Selected Publications

  • 2024 — Artmajeur Magazine, 20 Questions/Answers About Buying Art Through Leasing — featured artwork: Place of Escape

  • 2002 — An Engraver’s Globe: Wood Engraving World-wide in the Twenty-first Century, Simon Brett, Primrose Hill Press, London — Featured Artist, p. 271; three works reproduced

  • 1998 — Encyclopaedia Bio-Bibliographical of the Art of the Contemporary Ex-Libris, Vol. XXII, Artur Mário da Mota Miranda, Portugal — Featured Artist, pp. 57–61; text by Brian North Lee. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies

  • 1990s–2000s — Works reproduced in international ex-libris exhibition catalogues

Collections

  • Works are held in museum and private collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, MOMA Machynlleth, Wales, and private collections across the UK, Europe, and the United States.

Awards

  • John Purcell Paper Award, National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK, 1998

Education

  • South Thames College, London, UK
    BTEC National Diploma in Graphic Design (Two-year course completed within one year)

  • Ivan Fedorov Ukrainian Printing Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
    Faculty of Book Graphics

  • Kyiv College of Art and Design, Kyiv, Ukraine
    Qualification in Decorative Art

  • Children’s Art School, Kyiv, Ukraine
    Academic Drawing and Painting

Professional Memberships

  • Elected to the Society of Wood Engravers in 1997