Painter, muralist. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

Ivan S. Borisov graduated (with honors) in Sverdlovsk art school and the Leningrad Higher art-industrial school im. Vera Mukhina, where he received specialty muralist. His favorite teacher was Professor G. A. Savinov, who already when he was a student of Borisov defined the most characteristic of the work of the future master features: "sharp contornist, increased perception of light and tone, the major perception of the world, expressiveness, emotionalism". The artist is very carefully treated to the very sheet of paper, using different varieties, admiring its original texture. It is a long time "preparing" sheet, introducing additional methods and tools for processing, creating their own "know-how" when writing watercolor.

Watercolor was to master the valuable and even precious paint. He never used white and gouache, which are for most artists is almost a must-have addition that gives the clarity of the depicted objects. Even a colored outline that characterizes the works of Borisov, remained in watercolor. Ivan Stepanovich appreciated the cleanliness of the material, saying that watercolor is not inferior to any oil or gouache or tempera painting. Lyricism and, at the same time, the monumental, the decorative - in the absence of contrast and "sharp touch" - and the softness that you created with the "fading color and tone of the masses" - that features, carefully cultivated by the master.

The artist travels a lot. The most important thing to this amazing man - a real journey through the Urals, Siberia, Crimea, Caucasus, the Baltic States... Each new city, the new view that opens before the eyes of the master, a further reason for the picturesque (in the sense of watercolor) searches. The houses in the Dagestani village or temples in the cities of the Golden ring of Russia do not exist in the works of I. S. Borisov by themselves as separate objects. They exist as part of the environment, space, nature...