Obedkov Valery Ivanovich. Born in 1946. In 1968  graduated from the Ryazan Art School and in 1979 from the I.E.Repin Institute of Art, Sculpture and Architecture (a school of Prof. Myl'nikov), St-Petersburg.
A member of the Russian Artist Union. Works in the field of monumental and oil painting. Since 1979 participated in All-Union, Republican and International (Bulgaria, France, Japan, Finland Sweden, USA, Italy, India) Art Exhibitions. A Laureate of the Russian Art Academy Award.
Obedkov' works are characterized by expressed pursuit of time and space unity. They are full with distinguished preciosity. One can only guess what has influenced such distinguished  and dramatic wordpainting of the artist,  his delicate volatility in colors and at the same time austere spatial arrangement. Without doubt  he has been given  much in mastery of monumental approach principles and design of space by high skill of his teacher Andrey Myl'nikov. The painter was  also influenced by diversity  and remarkable colors of both native lands and exotic places  from India to America he had visited . But most of all evidently it is his poetry vision of world and "plenitude" of his soul that makes a professional the Master and craft the Art.