Galina Ershova

Galina Ershova is a draughtswoman and engraver, graduated from the Ilya Repin St. Petersburg Academic Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (also known as the Imperial Academy of Arts) in 2017. Before entering the Academy, she studied at the Saint Petersburg Art School named after Nicholas Roerich. Her training was conducted by Boris V. Lesov, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation. While still a junior college student, she had an opportunity to organize her first solo exhibition in the halls of Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute.

In 2009, she won the Outstanding Youth Achievement Award established by the Government of Saint Petersburg. Galina graduated from the Roerich Art School in 2010 and immediately entered the Repin Academy of arts. She studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Engraving, at the Chair of Easel Graphics. During her sophomore year, she was strongly influenced by Klim Lee, who was a dean of the department at the time. After a major declaration that took place in the third academic year, Galina was admitted into Alexander Andreev's atelier. Her graduate work was a series of ink drawings depicting the interior of a couchette car with no wall between compartment and corridor (in Russia, this type of sleeping car is called "platzkart"). After graduation in 2017*, Galina started teaching via online courses primarily aimed at beginner and novice artists.

*Galina had to take a leave of absence for family reasons, so she could not graduate as scheduled