I was born in 1990 in Yaroslavl (Russia) and worked as a structural steel engineer. In 2014 as a 
hobby, I decided to go to art school, and in 2018 I started to paint watercolour botanicals. Now I’m 
a full-time botanical artist, living in Hungary. 
Botanical painting helps me to feel closer to nature in our man-made, mechanical century. This is a 
meditation and an escape from the madness of the outside world. 
In botanical art I admire the beauty of the artistic image of the plant, the incredibly fine work and 
details. I like to paint dramatic or unusual plants. I grow many plants at home and in the garden 
and create images of different stages of growth. I think that growing plants from small seeds helps 
to understand the object better because the plant is observed everyday so that the growing cycles 
are witnessed and observed. 
I’m a Member of the Russian Botanical Artists Society (SABA) since 2020 and an SBA fellow since 
2023.

Alexandra Gorchakova was born in 1990 in Yaroslavl (Russia), relocated to Hungary in 2018.

Education:

2014-2018  Yaroslavl School of fine arts No. 8

2019 Svetlana Lanse biatanical course

2020 Billy Showell online school

2021-2022 Jessica Shepperd online lessons (patreon)

Member of Russian Botanical Artisis Sosiety (SABA) from 2020, SBA fellow from 2023

Exhibitions:

2024 TABA (Taiwan  Association of Botanical Artists ) Plantae Documentary 2024, Cheng Mei Gallery,  Yongjing Township, Changhua County, Taiwan 512,  Merit Award

2023 Plantae, Society of Botanical artists SBA, London, Mall Galleries (exhibition 
catalogue), Certificate of Botanical Merit 
2023 Wild Souls, Haze Gallery, Berlin 
2022 Christmas miracle, Golden Duck Gallery, Budapest 
2022 Annual exhibition of Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow (exhibition 
catalogue) 
2022 Plantae, Society of Botanical artists SBA, London, Mall Galleries (exhibition 
catalogue) 
2022 Tasty botany Gostiny dvor,Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow 
2022 Tasty new year Pavilion "Floriculture" VDNKh, Russian Botanical Artists Society, 
Moscow 
2021 Modern botanical illustration Gallery "Zagorie", Russian Botanical Artists Society, 

Moscow 
2021 Black and white in Promgrafika,Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow 
(exhibition catalogue) 
2021 Plants through the eyes of artists, Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow, 
Pavilion "Floriculture" VDNKh 
2021 Ball of the Queen of Flowers,Russian Botanical Artists Society, Kislovodsk 
2021 About rosesRussian Botanical Artists Society, Sochi 
2021 Autumn exhibition of SABA,Russian Botanical Artists Society, St. Petersburg 
2021 Annual exhibition of Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow 
2020 Annual exhibition of Russian Botanical Artists Society, Moscow