Olga Lobanova is a visual artist trained in traditional Islamic arts, specializing in miniature painting and geometric design. Educated at The Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, now known as The King’s Foundation school of Traditional Arts, London, she focused on Persian miniature techniques and sacred geometry, developing a practice that bridges classical methods with contemporary imagination.
Beginning each work with a single dot of ink—a conceptual and material anchor—Lobanova constructs intricate land and cityscapes using handmade pigments and a brush crafted from a single hair of a rare subcontinental squirrel. Her jewel-like miniatures emerge through meticulous layers of detail, where natural geometry, rhythm, and ornament unfold as meditative acts of seeing and listening.
She has exhibited internationally in exhibitions dedicated to miniature and manuscript traditions and lives and works in the United Kingdom.
2019
Persian-style miniature painting with mineral, plant, and precious metal pigments, created using traditional techniques on linen
11 x 18.8 in28 x 48 cm
2025
Persian-style miniature painting with mineral, plant, and precious metal pigments, created using traditional techniques on paper
18.8 x 13.7 in48 x 35 cm
2025
Persian-style miniature painting with mineral, plant, and precious metal pigments, created using traditional techniques on paper
18.8 x 13.7 in48 x 35 cm
2019
Persian-style miniature painting with mineral, plant, and precious metal pigments like lapis lazuli, created using traditional techniques on paper
21.5 x 16.1 in | 55 x 41 cm
2019
Persian-style miniature painting with mineral, plant, and precious metal pigments, created using traditional techniques on paper
21.5 x 16.1 in | 55 × 41 cm
2019
Persian-style miniature painting with mineral, plant, and precious metal pigments, created using traditional techniques on paper
21.6 x 16 in | 55 × 41 cm