Icon painting
Olga Volchkova
Tver
Olga Volchkova was born in Tver in 1970 and trained at the Tver Icon School and the Tver Art School in painting and restoration.
- Tver Icon School, a 1990s iconostasis crew
- Canonizes plants: Saint Fireweed, Saint Camas
- Her icon on an Einstürzende Neubauten cover
- Solo show at The Museum of Russian Art
- Two icons in Taschen's Plant Magick
Upcoming events
Olga Volchkova: Forest CommunitiesNew plant icons by Olga Volchkova, Saint Forest, Saint Camas, Saint Kelp, at Karin Clarke Gallery in Eugene.Karin Clarke Gallery · EugeneFirst Friday ArtWalk at Olga Volchkova's exhibitionFirst Friday at Karin Clarke Gallery: open late, with Olga Volchkova's Forest Communities on the walls.Karin Clarke Gallery · Eugene
In the early 1990s she worked on an iconostasis crew in Moscow, Tver and Viazma, then as restorer and curator at the Tver Art Museum. She moved to the US in 1998 and has lived in Eugene since 2000. She paints icons of plants, the Garden Saints, from Saint Dandelion to Saint Camas, in acrylic on wood.
Her work has been shown at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, the Schneider Museum of Art and The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis; her icon Rose and Chocolate is the cover of Einstürzende Neubauten's Unity.
Work
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