Welcome to the site of the artist Valentina Smolenskaya!

Valentina Smolenskaya lives and works in Moscow. In 1977 she graduated from the Moscow Institute of Technology as lacquer painting artist. She worked at the Fedoskino Factory of Miniature Painting for 6 years. This is an ancient Russian enterprise, an originator of Russian art lacquer painting. Today Smolenskaya is a a associate professor in the State University of Land Use Planning, Departament of Architecture, member of the Moscow union of artists. Since 1979 she has been taking an active part in the Moscow, regional and international exhibitions.

The works by Smolenskaya are found in the storages and the exposition of All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, State Historical Museum, Museum of the Fedoskino Factory and private collections of The United States, Great Britain, France, Norway, Spain, etc.