Alexandra Gorchakova

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Biography

I was born in 1990 in Yaroslavl (Russia) and worked as a structural steel engineer. In 2014 as a hobby, I decided to go to art school, and in 2018 I started to paint watercolour botanicals after Svetlana Lanse’s course. Now I’m a full-time botanical artist, living in Hungary.

Botanical painting helps me to feel closer to nature in our man-made, mechanical century. This is a meditation and an escape from the madness of the outside world.

In botanical art I admire the beauty of the artistic image of the plant, the incredibly fine work and details. I like to paint dramatic or unusual plants. I grow many plants at home and in the garden and create images of different stages of growth. I think that growing plants from small seeds helps to understand the object better because the plant is observed everyday so that the growing cycles are witnessed and observed.

I’m a Member of the Russian Botanical Artists Society (SABA) since 2020 and an SBA fellow since 2023.

Exhibitions:

2022  Annual exhibition of Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow
2022 Haze Bazar by Haze Gallery Berlin
2022 Christmas miracle, Golden Duck Gallery, Budapest2022 Annual exhibition of Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow2022 Plantae Society of Botanical artists SBA, London, Mall Galleries2022 “Tasty botany” Gostiny dvor, Moscow2022 “Tasty new year” Pavilion “Floriculture” VDNKh, Moscow2021 “Modern botanical illustration” Gallery “Zagorie” Moscow2021 “Black and white” in Promgrafika, Moscow2021 “Plants through the eyes of artists” Moscow, Pavilion “Floriculture” VDNKh2021 “Ball of the Queen of Flowers”» Kislovodsk2021 “About roses” Sochi2021″Autumn exhibition of SABA”, St. Petersburg2021 Annual exhibition of Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow2020 Annual exhibition of Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow