Welcome to my refreshed and improved website, filled with my newly inspired painting collection.

Just a few words about me – very briefly, not to distract you from my works and their associated prices )), and from the lively presentation of my exhibit. I was born just prior to the last quarter of the last century, in 1971, in the beautiful city of Kyiv. It was in the maternity hospital where I started drawing)). From early childhood I used to spend my after-school hours at my father’s art studios. Daddy was the deputy director of the Soviet Ukraine’s Art Fund with a lot of varied art studios under his command. Within only one week I could be a blacksmith, a stained-glass designer, a sculptor, a metal chiseller, and a woodcarver. But most of all I was fond of looking at young girl models posing for the artists. That defined my future. I graduated from high school at Kholmsk – a small town on the island of Sakhalin, where my father moved during Perestroika as a freelance artist. Being already a young man of a very strong build, I worked as a blacksmith’s striker helping in creation of fancy gates, banisters, window grates with stained glass. In 1992, the country was rapidly disintegrating and everybody who could leave, left. By good fortune I found myself in a small, but a very proud land called Israel. Not right away, but my father and I did go on pursuing our, or more specifically – his artistic destiny. At first I only helped, but growing up I got more and more involved and became – as I think )) – a very reliable helper. We had our own ART studio and gallery at Savyon, which on weekends accumulated marvelous creative people – stained-glass designers, glassmakers, CG artists, painters, poets, and musicians. We took part in many exhibitions. Our wrought iron stood out and set the style. In 2000, we were included into the Israeli Art Encyclopedia – you can see pages from it in the Gallery’s Wrought Iron section. In 2001, I left Israel for Russia, where my efforts in forging failed because of strong competition with the Russian masters. I worked as a creative director in a few advertising agencies and started to paint. My works sold well, as the Pop Art portrait style was right on. I exhibited in restaurants, clubs, casinos. I invented a new 3D portrait technique which was a success and provided me many orders. In 2011, the wind of change brought me to Southern Spain, to the Marbella Art Festival. That opened a new page in my creative career and personal happiness. I fell in love with Spain, so that by now I feel myself a Spaniard. Moreover, my name as if by magic is so assonant with the traditions of this beautiful country. Yul Hanchas – Julio Hanchas. Ancho is Spanish for “broad”, and I am very much like my name. I am tall, broad-shouldered, with an incredibly big heart and good soul. My stay in Spain is reflected in My Exhibitions section. You will find yourselves and your friends there)))! Within nine years here, I’ve had 25 personal exhibitions and taken part in forty more collective displays. Each half a year I design and create a unique collection – in oil, in acryl, in mixed media technique. All my collections are displayed in the Gallery section. My paintings decorate many households across the world and are in celebrities’ private collections. They are waiting for you too!

Yours,
Yul Hanchas