Alla Barkova was born on Sakhalin Island, in the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. She studied design at the Moscow Textile University and worked as a fashion designer in Moscow knitwear factories.
Today, she lives in Prenton and is a member of the Wirral Society of Arts. Nature is her main source of inspiration. In the past, she created knitted patterns based on sketches of trees – but now, she tries to find unusual real trees and explore their beauty on paper. She enjoys the creative process: finding trees, taking photos of them and transferring their forms and structures into her artworks.
The main source of each of her paintings is personal observations of nature. She draws using a graphic technique and finds the process of drawing completely relaxing. The materials she uses are very simple: a black gel pen and paper.
See more of Alla’s artworks on our Gallery page.