The expressive language of the painter has developed through the spatial confluence of painting and drawing. The reality, as transformed through the painter’s eye, focuses on the distinctiveness of colours and shapes, which is achieved through a unique usage of graphic techniques. His paintings display a particular attention towards the surrounding world. This is an echo from the years of drawing straight from the nature. Andrey Kovalenko himself has declared that he rejects conceptualism and its total submission to cold calculations, formulas and print runs. Yet the painter, who follows the traditions of the Southern Russian school, has not disengaged himself from the material aspect of painting.