"Elena is an academically trained painter and illustrator graduated from Moscow State Academy of Print (1991-97, MA in Fine Art Honour with distinction). She has exhibited widely since 1996 in number of shows, galleries and museums. Including NCCA and Brunel museum. Her paintings and woodcuts are held in many private and some public collections around the world. She lives and works in London.

In her second year of the etching exploration, Elena continues with using the plates as a painting matrix for her new short stories series of colourful exploits on interjections. She discovers new ways of mark making on soft ground. Her tools - Tabasco, springs and a golf ball, leading her to a new expressionistic graphical language."