Valery Valran is not one of those artists who simply find ”their” technique or theme and stop their creative searches at that. He is a tireless researcher of life and its artistic possibilities, who sets himself a challenge, follows it and moves on to the next one. In Valran’s art there are not so much single works but rather a series that makes it possible to solve technological, thematic or interpretive problems comprehensively. Being a native of the second wave of avant garde and somebody who actively experimented with material and expressive means, Valran is not restricted by a standard oil and canvas. In his arsenal there is a variety of graphic techniques, paintings, collages, assemblages and photography. His thematic circle of interests is also very wide, which required the development of both subject and abstract modes of representation. 

In 1970, Valran immediately started with abstraction, being inspired by work of foreign abstract expressionists and especially by the Leningrad Evgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko, introduction whom with has happened in those years. Balancing on the border of imitation and self-expression, Valran created his first graphical abstract works. Later, in 1978 he created series "Reflections" and "Relief" on the hardboard. The artist's interest in non-objective art has an undulating temper: for a long time switching to figurativism, he returns to different forms of abstraction again and again.