Roman Sustov

Using traditional Medium: Stone lithography, Sustov creates prints that mix fantasy and fairy tales with a modern sensibility. He is well known internationally for his ex libris prints, for which he has won many awards.

Roman Sustov was born in 1977 in Minsk, Belarus. In 1995 he graduated from Minsk Art College and six years later he graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Arts (Department of Graphic). Through this long training he has become a master in etching, lithography and linocut prints. His works can be found in collections in the USA, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine, Japan, Russia and Belarus, and in the Contemporary Fine Art Museum (Minsk, Belarus).

While he is widely known for his ex libris prints, he has also been very successful in book  illustration, working with many Russian and Belarusian publishing houses.  He is a regular winner of the exhibition “An Artist and a Book.

The main subject line of his graphics is fairy-tales and fantasy.  Roman notes:

“I love to read fairy-tales and actually I make them myself. But the most unique is to create images that enliven and animate words. It’s some kind of an artistic magic”.