After graduating from the institute and before being drafted into the army, Aksinin worked as an art editor at the Lviv Regional Administration for Publishing, Printing, and Book Trade. After military service, he worked as a designer at the design bureau of the Ministry of Light Industry. From 1977 onward, he chose the path of a freelance artist, leaving official employment.
Aksinin maintained close contacts with foreign artists, particularly with Estonian graphic artist Tõnis Vint, who admired the perfection of Aksinin’s constructions and the iconic clarity of his works. He was also friends with other artists from the Baltic States and Poland. Together with his wife, the writer and artist Engelina Buriakovska, Aksinin maintained connections with Moscow and Leningrad underground artists.
Aksinin’s art is a unique world, governed by its own laws and closed processes, where familiar objects, when combined, create another parallel universe. Aksinin’s style is distinguished by refined contrasts of dark and light tones, and a rhythmic tonal structure. In his colored etchings and works in mixed media, color serves a graphic rather than painterly purpose. His teachers, alongside visual artists such as Dürer, Bruegel, Bosch, de Chirico, Malevich, Klee, and Escher, included authors of literature he read: Swift, Kafka, Borges, and Dostoevsky. In his series of printed graphics, Aksinin often transformed text into an integral part of the image.
He organized several apartment exhibitions in Leningrad and his own home in Lviv. He received honorary gold medals at the Small Graphic Forms exhibitions in Łódź, Poland. His artistic legacy includes 343 etchings (including 3 unfinished), approximately 200 colored etchings and mixed-media graphic works, and 27 volumes of diaries containing more than 200 sketches prepared for etchings, along with numerous idea drawings sufficient for years of creative work. His works are preserved in the collections of the Lviv National Art Gallery, the Art Museum of Estonia, and in private collections.