Olga Smolentseva

Olga Smolentseva is a Russian painter with more than 30 years of professional experience.

Her works are based on Surikov art school paradigm, freedom of self-expression and esthetic of modern British art and moral-philosophically ideas of Russian symbolists.

She created her personal style – Collage Performance – a symbiosis of Realism, Art performance and updated Collage technic.

Main salt of her creation is story telling with positive, humour, open mind and The Creator look at inner world of objects of her attention.

She graduated from Moscow Institute of V.I.Surikov (Tahir Salakhov chair), Moscow Pedagogical University, Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, gained a grant from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design (Simon Schama chair).

Olga is a founder of “School of full expression of personality “Grani””

(for children from 5 to 16 years old) ().

She gives tickets to life and to art world for children already more than 18 years.

Her unique authoring teaching method allows to her students to be both successful personality and professionals: designers (fashion, theatre, web), cartoon creators, painters.

State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov, monumental painting.
Diploma supervisor - Tair Teymurovich Salakhov.
Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. V.I. Lenina, Graphic Art Faculty.
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.