Collection: Olga Vishnyakova
Olga Vishnyakova has always been in love with beauty. As a child, she’d carry around her father’s camera looking for ways to capture images that revealed the marvelous colours, textures, patterns, and movement of nature. Her artistic practice has been developed through mentorship with teachers and continues through her own curiosity and passion to create and learn about ways to know the world. The thread that connects her work is a search for beauty, connection, and reverence for nature.
While completing her undergrad in Biomedical Sciences, Olga had the opportunity to learn beading in a community circle hosted by an Anishinaabe teacher. The process, aesthetics, and language of the craft inspired her to look to her own cultural traditions and history. She has let her own identity guide her work, recreating traditional Slavic patterns and adapting her grandmother and great-grandmother’s designs. Now, her beadwork primarily focuses on florals and other natural forms. Her work is a love letter to nature and to the spirit of community and connection it embodies.
Olga is excited about working across mediums. She has been painter, sculptor, photographer, designer, jeweller, and is always looking for new forms of expression to learn and explore. When she is not making art, she works in ecological restoration, travels, hikes, reads and studies. In all she does, she is looking for an answer to the question: “what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
