The creativity of the enameller Ekaterina Vdovkina

Abstract

The article examines the work of enameller Ekaterina Nikolaevna Vdovkina with the aim to give a general characterisation of the artist's creative activity. The tasks of the study include briefly presenting the creative path of the master, considering the stages of her training in enamel art, as well as analysing the main themes and motifs of the works. This kind of research is relevant both for understanding the works of the artist and for presenting the development of modern enamel art in Russia as a whole. E.N. Vdovkina is a second generation enameller. Her father Nikolay Mikhailovich Vdovkin stood at the origins of the revival of enamel art in Russia in the 1990s. He created his own school of enamel art in the Stavropol region and organised a number of international symposiums in this field. E.N. Vdovkina underwent serious professional training; she studied working with hot enamel first in her father's workshop, then at a branch of the Abramtsevo Art-Industrial College named after V.M. Vasnetsov and at the Saint Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design. The artist creates both easel works in the technique of hot enamelling and icons for churches and private individuals, works in exteriors and interiors of temple complexes.