Olga Geoghegan

Olga was born in the city of Ukhta in the far polar North of Russia. At the age of eleven, Olga was accepted into Special Secondary Artistic boarding school attached to the Leningrad Academy of Arts and then the academy itself at the age of eighteen.

During her 6 years at the academy and the decade afterwards, Olga lived in an artist’s garret squat in a building known as “Apteka Poel” – an important hub in Leningrad and then Petersburg’s burgeoning underground scene during the 1980-1990s. In this same period, Olga also spent time copying frescoes at the Luzhetsky Monastery and painting backdrops in the dome of the Mariinsky (Kirov) Opera and Ballet Theatre. Both experiences that have influenced her style and technique.

Since arriving in the West in 1998, she has taken part in a large number of exhibitions in Britain, most notably the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Kew Gardens and the Affordable Art Fair, but also further afield in California, Spain, Switzerland and, of course, Moscow and St. Petersburg. She has previously exhibited with the Gateway Gallery in Hale, Cheshire, the Silvina Gallery, California and is currently represented by the Saul Hay Gallery in Manchester. Her works can be found in collections all around the world.