When: Oct 17-18, 2025, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM each day
Where: Art Room at Crooked Creek Park
1098 Old Lexington Hwy, Chapin, SC 29036
Lunch will be provided.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION (from the instructor)
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Floral Impressions invites you to immerse yourself in the art of sculpting delicate, low-relief flowers in clay during this inspiring two-day workshop. Guided step-by-step, you’ll learn techniques to bring graceful petals, textured leaves, and elegant blooms to life in rich detail. Over the course of the class, each student will create two to three unique floral pieces, which will be professionally fired by the instructor and returned to you, ready to
display or gift. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or a curious beginner, this workshop offers a hands-on, creative escape where your imagination can blossom.
The instructor will provide all the necessary supplies for participants, including clay, sculpting tools, glazes, underglazes, visual support, etc. The instructor will also provide firing of all the work created in the class.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
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Olga Yukhno is an artist originally from Pyatigorsk, Russia. It was in Russia her passion for art began. Inspired by the culture of her home country, she started by working with batiques, stained glass and enameling. She studied under world renowned enamellist, Nikolai Vdovkin for several years to hone her skills, before moving to the United States in 2008.
In the US, she no longer had access to the tools needed to continue with her enameling and quickly started expanding into any and every new medium she could get access to. What she fell in love with was ceramic sculpting. It allowed her to experiment, and fuse together old-world artistry with her skills and abilities across a wide variety of art forms to create totally new and unique mixed media pieces.
Over the years, Olga has traveled to over 40 countries across Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the Americas, and visited museums ranging from the world-famous Louvre in France, to the smallest unnamed art displays in towns and villages few outsiders have ever seen. It is in these travels she gets the most inspiration, drawing on the uniqueness and culture of every new place she visits, she finds ways to incorporate those cultural nuances into each new piece she makes. The colors, shapes, and ideas of everything from tribal masks to modern street art can be seen woven into her work. She loves juxtaposition in her art, old and new, lustrous and weathered, and it’s in these contrasts she finds beauty. Currently her work is a mixture of three-dimensional ceramic and mixed media wall pieces, figurative sculpture, and larger scale installation works. The process used to create many of her signature looks is achieved by hand pressing each individual impression into the clay using small custom-made metal tools. She hand makes all of these tools herself out of repurposed architectural metal scraps. She also loves to incorporate found objects, as well as utilize techniques from other art forms she’s studied and practiced, such as weaving, encaustic and metal working. The result of this process, different incorporated elements and techniques are what create her unique and visually interesting personal style. Her degree in psychology shapes the ideas and concepts behind many of her pieces, with the intention that observing her work encourages the viewer to think more about what they’re seeing, and the emotions it evokes.
SUPPLY LIST
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See the online registration page for the full supply list for this workshop.
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REGISTRATION
Registration is open to all artists. CCAL members pay $225 ($50 minimum deposit required). Non-members pay $275 ($50 minimum deposit required).
Note: This event will be held indoors. By registering for this event, you agree that you understand the risks of COVID and agree to the CCAL COVID Waiver Policy.
You can register online at www.crookedcreekart.org/ccal-workshops.
To register offline or for more information, contact
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