Lyudmila Solod

Founder and head of the studio, floral artist, author of books on flower collages and pictures.

Path

A biologist by training, Lyudmila graduated from the Faculty of Biology and Soil Science of Moscow State University, worked at a botanical garden and assembled scientific herbaria. She has worked with pressed flowers since 2002 — at the time Moscow had neither a school nor masters of the craft, so she taught herself from foreign books and articles, and later trained in South Korea. In 2003–2005 she founded the Tsvetoslozhenie studio.

Recognition

• prize-winner of competitions and international exhibitions, including a pressed flower art exhibition in South Korea (2015);
• member of the International Association “Union of Designers” and of international pressed flower art associations in Japan and the UK;
• European diploma in floral collage and design, Japanese ikebana diplomas.

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions since 2002 — in museums, galleries and at festivals in Russia and abroad. Solo exhibitions:

• “Flowers in a Frame”, State Darwin Museum, 2007;
• solo exhibition at Moscow State University, 2009;
• “Flower Mandalas”, Sever art bureau, 2012.

Books

Three books on flower collages, pictures and floral design published by Eksmo, the first in 2006.

Workshops

For many years Lyudmila has taught workshops and seminars — at the studio, at Moscow State University, at the Aptekarsky Ogorod botanical garden, at the Muranovo, Kuzminki and Leo Tolstoy museum estates, at the Moscow Cultural Forum and city festivals. She has taught hundreds of students.

All events are in “History” and the “Journal”.