Olesya Volk
Olesya Volk (a.k.a. Olga Volozova) is a Los Angeles-based artist/writer. She was born at the shore of the Caspian sea, in Baku, Azerbajan ( then part of Russia). At the age of 16 she moved to Moscow. There she graduated from the State Institute of Theatre Arts. She specialized in theater history and and puppet theatre. In Moscow she started doodling and also, writing and publishing her tales and puppet plays.
She moved to the US in 1992; she entered the graduate program at UCLA Animation Workshop; received her MFA in Film & TV/Animation. Then, she worked doing web animation and illustrations.
Three of her books, in the graphic novel style, were published by the Sparkplug Comic Books (Portland, Oregon):" The Airy Tales", a collection of tales, "with a touch of nonsense"; " Rock That Never Sleeps" (in collaboration with Juliacks, two fantasy stories about the loss of memory) and, based on a legend of a famous kabbalist, "The Golem of Gabirol" (which made it into the "Best Notables of 2014") Recently she self-published a graphic novel "The Green Zybari" .
In her paintings, Olga explores the patterns of nature, mostly the tree bark, as a possibility of intuitive "readings" and leaps into the primordial language.
She often uses the old Flemish masters technique which she has learned at the Visionary Arts seminars following the tradition of the fantastic realism in Vienna. Olga's art genres also include mixed media, small dioramas, paper theatre.She is also an organizer of the FairyTale Club for artists in Los Angeles !