Yury Darashkevich was born in Asipovichi, Belarus. Graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of the Arts in 1985. Upon graduation he began a career in the illustration and graphic design field, painting in his spare time. After several successful solo shows in the early 1990s, Yury started to devote his attention to art Making this career change, he moved to Toronto Canada. Being a full time artist he became an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists in 2009. In 2010 he opened his second studio in Palm Beach, FL. Currently his artwork is exhibited in art galleries in US, Canada and Europe. He has gone on to win several awards including Best in Show from SCA Members National Art Exhibition, Award of Excellence from Manhattan Arts International Magazine, and First Prize at White Art Festival. He has been a member of Society of Canadian Artists since 2009.Of his work, Yury says, “It is all about motions and emotions that shape the fragile and unstable element of the human consciousness such as BEAUTY. Being a visual artist, I try to recreate the path of our intuition, which gives us visual preferences and shapes our definition of IDEAL. I guide the process of when a subject (model) becomes an image (painting/photo) and the 2D image transforms into the 3D object (ARTWORK). My works are about visual perception and the ways in which human forms respond to the color, line, shape, texture or pattern. I collect loose emotions as purposely-scattered elements of the image, and bring them back together to discover the definition of altered beauty.