ABOUT


Lera Bolkonska is a London-based Artist and Illustrator from Ukraine. Working primarily with watercolour, ink, pastels and ceramics, she creates hand-drawn imagery that embraces imperfection and spontaneity to capture the emotional truth of a moment.

Deeply interested in human psychology, Lera explores the quiet poetry of everyday life, where humour and empathy intersect. Her work resists social pressure and normative expectations, celebrating individuality, vulnerability and nonconformity.

Alongside her personal practice, she collaborates with brands, cultural organisations and hospitality venues on live illustration, editorial commissions, brand activations and bespoke visual projects.

Lera is currently completing an MA in Illustration after graduating from the Graduate Diploma in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.

SERVICES


  • Live Event Illustration
  • Brand Activations
  • Hospitality Illustration
  • Packaging & Branding
  • Editorial Illustration
  • Murals & Window Art, etc.


SELECTED CLIENTS & COLLABORATIONS

  • University of the Arts London
  • Not Just a Shop
  • Mortar Magazine 
  • Letchworth Festival
  • YourKommunication Space 
  • Meet Me community club 


SELECTED AWARDS & RECOGNITION

EXHIBITIONS &  ART MARKETS


2026 – MA Illustration showcase, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
2025 – Illustrators’ Fair, King’s Cross, London 
2025 – Graduate Diploma showcase, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
2024 – group exhibition, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, UK
2023–2024 – regular exhibitor, Information office, Hitchin, UK
2019 – “City of Inspiration”, solo exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 – Arsenal Book Fair, Kyiv, Ukraine


WORKSHOPS


Lera has facilitated portrait sketching and creativity workshops for adults, students and children encouraging observation, storytelling and self-expression through drawing.

2026 – Portrait sketching workshops, UAL Welcome Week 
2025 – UAL Postgraduate Community
2025 – portrait sketching at Peckham Levels Festival 
2024 – Letchworth Festival 
2023 – The Wilbury Community, Hertfordshire




 


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