Barefooted Stroll (a picture by Afremov)
Leonid Afremov was born on July 12, 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus in a jewish family. He lived there until 1990, since 1990 till 2002 he lived in Israel and then since 2002 till 2010 in Boca Raton, Florida. Afremov currently resides in the popular resort town Playa Del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico near Cancun.
Afremov is mainly known as being a self-representing artist who promotes and sells his work exclusively over the internet with very little exhibitions and involvement of dealers and galleries. Before the advancement of online sales and ebay, Afremov was a struggling artist.
He paints mainly landscape, city scenes, seascapes, flowers and portraits. Most of his work is considered very colorful and politically neutral. His art was declared very relaxing and calm by notable psychologists and psychiatrists. To this day Afremov's art is used in various psychological and psychiatric therapy procedures. Afremov's paintings were published not only in art magazines but also in various medical and health magazines as examples of stress reducing paintings.
