Youry Bondarenko is heir to a Russian tradition of landscape painting, portraiture and historical genre painting still not widely known in the West. There is nothing superficial about Youry Bondarenko's paintings. Look and you will see a blend of two very Russian characteristics: refinement and passion. Technically his work is precise and polished; in spirit it is moody, unpredictable and intense.

Harriet Crawley, Writer and art critic
(from catalogue of exhibition "The Inner Essence")