Olga Gerke

was born in St Petersbourgh, Russia and is currently living in Manchester.
Olga studied art and graduated in law in St Petesborough University in 1995.

Olga likes to reflect the ideas of birth and growth, illness and health, density and transparency, spontaneity and randomness, austerity and abundance. Her pictures are often colourful, but she also likes muted colours and monochrome.
Olga’s preference of watercolour reflects well the idea of ever-changing transparent and magical world that we live in.

Influences: Emile Nolde, Japanese artists, Egon Schiele and others.

Olga also writes fiction, short stories about everyday life, and she hopes one day her stories and autobiographic short novel will be translated into English.