From "Swamps" series

Petr Shvetsov presents his research into the frontiers of painting on the example of one apparently very simple theme - a landscape with a swamp. The texture of the painting undergoes a check on its ability to convey the depth of a waterlogged quagmire in which opinions and ideas get bogged down. An initial impulse for work has been given by the popular scientific book by N. Sukachyov 
"Swamps, their formation, development and properties", which has been published in Leningrad in 1926.
For this reason "Swamps" is not a series of paintings in the strict sense, but a circle of  works united by a single theme, by the initial desire to observe in maximum proximity the etymological essence of the swamps, its picturesque depth.
For his painstaking studio experiment Petr Shvetsov has chosen the motif of a marshlandscape with a central disturbing apperture —a water source, in the center of which a strange spot of light of unclear origin is concentrated. This haunting image, to which he returned again and again, oddly combines the harmony inherent in the forest landscape, with children's fears of a deep whirlpool.