He works in oil painting, with particular emphasis on colouristic features.
The other artists were Nana Meskhidze, Givi Narmania, Zurab Razmadze and Bezhan Shvelidze.
[3] He has been widely lauded in his home country, where he was denoted the "Honoured Artist of Georgia" in 1979, and awarded the State Prize the following year.
He has regularly exhibited throughout Georgia and Russia since 1978, and abroad since 1980, including Tunisia, Cologne, Washington, D.C. and London.
[2][4][5] His work can be found in the private collections of the Queen of the Netherlands, former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, former German political leaders Helmut Kohl and Roman Herzog.