'Western Impressions', will include new and recent landscapes of Colorado and New Mexico The medium is oil on canvas.

Mr. Voltsinger has recently moved to Santa Fe from southern Colorado, where he has lived and painted for the past eleven years. In addition to his full time practice he is currently teaching a course in drawing at the Community College.

Felix was born in 1954 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He attended a regional art school and at the age of twelve was admitted to the high school of the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. Graduating in 1971 with honors, Felix took a year off and apprenticed with a restoration master. For a year he restored frescoes in medieval churches and cathedrals, traveling throughout Russia.

Returning to the Academy, Felix was admitted to the Restoration and Conservation Department, where he studied art history, painting, drawing and composition, as well as the techniques and chemistry of the Old Masters. Copying the Old Masters was mandatory, and for six years Felix worked in this strict environment to master the discipline. Every summer, the students would travel to different parts of the country to accomplish practical studies, painting landscapes. Every year since, he has continued to undertake extensive summer sketching tours.

Felix graduated from the Academy in 1979 with honors and was offered a position within the Restoration Department of the Russian Museum. After a year, he accepted a position at The Hermitage. He remained there until the time he left the Soviet Union in 1982.

Felix worked in various restoration studios in Boston and New York, and eventually opened his own studio, working for collectors and dealers in New York. During this time, Felix traveled extensively throughout the United States and fell in love with the open and stark beauty of the American West. In 1996, Felix followed his impulse to paint landscapes. He sold his business in New York and moved to an isolated cabin in the mountains above Salida, Colorado.

Summers, he still packs his tent and travels throughout the Southwest, sketching and doing studies. Winters find him in his studio, bringing the experiences of Western landscape back to life in paint.