Olga Belka Underwater Artist

Olga Belka is a unique underwater artist the only underwater portraitist in the world. She developed a unique technology of painting in salt water allowing her to paint from nature detailing the smallest details of the underwater world. She travels and paints all over the world. Olga managed to achieve not only the desired visual effect and environmental friendliness but also the durability of the paintings. She creates paintings completely from beginning to end from nature on the seabed. Each painting required from two to six dives and every dive lasts up to three hours.
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Olga Belka paints not only corals, fishes, turtles, and other sea life. But she also works with staging. She creates various story compositions. For example, stories of treasure. To do this, she uses additional props, safe for marine life.
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Having gained experience in painting underwater landscapes, Olga Belka set about creating a completely new art direction – an underwater portrait. In the water column, humans obey completely different laws of physics and are surrounded by new unfamiliar energies and a completely different harmony. Being under the authority of the same energies, Olga captures them on canvas.
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Olga Belka’s unique studio is an underwater...

Olga has a higher education of Art and Pedagogical College of Technology and Design (fashion design department) and Moscow State University (Diploma "Modern Use of Folk Arts and Crafts in Design and Contemporary Art"). Besides, Olga had individual training and practice with Members of the Union of Artists of Russia.

Olga Belka had 9 personal exhibitions in Moscow, Thailand, Taiwan and Maldives in 2017-2019, Exhibited her underwater art at Art Revolution Taipei 2019 in Taiwan, Moscow Dive Show in 2018 and 2019, International Thailand Yacht Show in Phuket in 2019, Art Shenzhen in 2019, was invited as a special guest to many events. You can see movies about Olga’s art on TV and articles about her in the media at least of 30 countries.