Alexandra Gorchakova

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, Budapest
2022 Annual exhibition of Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow
2022 Plantae Society of Botanical artists SBA, London, Mall Galleries
2022 “Tasty botany” Gostiny dvor, Moscow
2022 “Tasty new year” Pavilion “Floriculture” VDNKh, Moscow
2021 “Modern botanical illustration” Gallery “Zagorie” Moscow
2021 “Black and white” in Promgrafika, Moscow
2021 “Plants through the eyes of artists” Moscow, Pavilion “Floriculture” VDNKh
2021 “Ball of the Queen of Flowers”» Kislovodsk
2021 “About roses” Sochi
2021″Autumn exhibition of SABA”, St. Petersburg
2021 Annual exhibition of Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow
2020 Annual exhibition of Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow