On March 25, on the Day of the Cultural Worker, the Presidential Award was presented in Moscow Russian Federation for young cultural figures in 2015. Only three people became laureates of the award: musician V.M. Lavrik, designer E.A. Cheburashkina and Kolomna artist E.N. Lotsmanov. The awards were presented in the Kremlin by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin.

Evgenia received the title of laureate for her contribution to the development of the domestic art of illustration. The talented artist is the author of drawings for the books "Tales of 1001 Nights" (2007), "Magpie's Tales" by A.N. Tolstoy (2013), Magic Hill by G.Kh. Andersen (2014), "Little forest fairy tale» N. Maksimova (2015). She also created a series of illustrations for "Gulliver's Travels", "The Chronicles of Narnia", "Tartuffe", a series of lithographs dedicated to the historical places of Russia. She has participated in numerous exhibitions, including three solo exhibitions in 2012, 2013 and 2015. Holder of a diploma of the Union of Artists of Russia (2010), winner of the competition in the nomination "Best Children's Edition" on the Bolshoi book fair in Perm (2013). Member of the Moscow Union of Artists.

Evgenia works in a very complex technique - color lithography, using a heavy lithographic stone, which requires a lot of patience and physical strength. Despite the laboriousness of the technological process, the drawings are light, as if made in one breath. Being a worthy successor to the traditions of domestic book illustration, E.N. Lotsmanova created own style, her works are distinguished by amazing attractiveness, kind and bright attitude towards the characters, attentive attitude to the text.

AT this moment Evgenia Lotsmanova is working on a book of her poems, the illustrations for which the artist herself creates.
In conclusion, a funny poem for children from Evgenia Lotsmanova.
"Merry Moo"
funny hum,
lazy silence
And juicy emerald
grass chewing,
Runaway paths,
chamomile bloom,
lamb cloud,
immensity of blue.

Spotted moo
bumblebee growl,
milky sparkle
birch bark,
mouse throwing,
And bees muttering
And ponytails swing
under the singing of mosquitoes.

long moo,
And birdies meeting
And sleepy murmur
forest spring
And rainbow-dragonfly
color flutter
And butterfly-sultry
the flurry of the wind.

funny moo
And the rustling of leaves
fluff flying
over the web of a spider,
cuckoo scream,
And sorrel plucking,
And an important buzz
hurrying beetle.

happy moo,
Grasshoppers chirping,
Fragrant meeting
dusky dawn,
Honey-fragrant
earth fragrance,
Sleep tonight, sunshine
and tomorrow burn again!

Kolomna hosts the first solo exhibition of Evgenia Lotsmanova, a talented illustrator who has not yet published a single book.

Quietly and modestly, in the cultural center "Ozerov's House" the first solo exhibition of a 27-year-old illustrator, a graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Moscow University of Printing Arts.

Adults and children, people who are subtly versed in art, and those who do not understand at all - everyone walked around the exhibition of Evgenia Lotsmanova, somehow illumined. Looking at her illustrations for H.K. Andersen, A.N. Tolstoy, S. Pisakhov and C. Lewis, you forget the sad forecasts of experts about the dying of the domestic art of book illustration. After the opening of the exhibition, the artist answered the questions of the RG correspondent.

How did it happen that you devoted yourself to such a heavy male technique as lithography?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: Lithography allows you to experiment with the same sketch, varying colors and refining it to find the best solution. And there is a charm in the miraculousness of the printed picture, which usually turns out a little differently than you expect.

You called your exhibition a journey. Where are we going?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: We will go on a journey through fairy tales created by writers different countries. They carry both a bright national flavor and the spirit of the time when they were created. Russian, European or Oriental fairy tales require a different approach, different artistic reference points, be it Russian lubok and painted spinning wheels, Iranian miniature or European painting of the 16th-19th centuries.

Your heroes are fabulous - you will not meet such people in life. Where do they come to you from? From dreams, from childhood? ..

Evgenia Lotsmanova: Yes, mostly from childhood impressions and some vague, but very dear associations... I draw some heroes from the closest people. For example, from my mother.

Evgenia Lotsmanova: Loved very much as a child fairy tales and stories about animals. Later I read a lot of classics and adventure literature like The Three Musketeers. One of my favorite books now is Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. I always enjoy reading memoirs, books written in exile, memoirs of people who survived the most difficult moments of our history. One of the last reads is the memoirs of the artist Ostroumova-Lebedeva.

When did you feel like an illustrator?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: It all started with a wonderful picture drawn by my mother for the "City of Masters". She was so good at it that I wanted to draw just as well.

Your exhibition is a whole fabulous country. What would you call this country?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: I remember the words of Nika Georgievna Goltz, one of my favorite illustrators, said at a meeting with us students. She said: no fictional countries are needed, because all the most interesting and magical things happen nearby, you just need to see it.

They say that your ancestors were icon painters? What do you know about them and do you feel in yourself, in your art, some kind of ancestral continuity?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: Unfortunately, I don't know much. My maternal great-grandfather came from a village in the Yegoryevsk district, where icon-painting flourished. In his youth, great-grandfather continued family traditions, but after the revolution, he had to change his occupation. Probably, both icon painting and book illustration are art forms that do not allow too much fuss, including rather painstaking work, requiring "deep immersion" and intense mental work.

Who are your favorite artists?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: I love Flemish Dutch painting, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer. I am happy to contact many masters European painting up to late XIX in. In Russian art, I really love Korovin, Kustodiev, Vrubel, all the "World of Art". I treat Benois' ABC and Bilibin's books with spiritual trepidation. And of course, my great and endless joy is the masters of Soviet book graphics, whose pictures are dearly loved since childhood: Konashevich, Yuri Vasnetsov, Mavrina, Ustinov, Eliseev, Goltz and many, many others. And especially I want to say about the illustrations of my dear teacher Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov, which for me already at the institute became a real insight.

You write poetry, you sing, you make puppets...

Evgenia Lotsmanova: I only get a small part of what I want to do. But different hobbies, I feel, feed each other. Russian singing folk songs inspires pictures for Russian fairy tales, if there is no time to draw an image that suddenly appeared, you can write a poem about it somewhere on the road, and creating dolls, working with volume, with different textures and materials makes it easier to sculpt a shape in a drawing.

It is often said that children are indifferent to books, to reading, that the book will die soon. What would you say to such skeptics?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: By using computer technology you can get information, but most likely it will be kaleidoscopic. The book is capable of carrying a holistic artistic image, which will educate the taste of the child, being an understandable, cozy and tangible house for words and characters living and acting in it, like actors in a play played for one small spectator and for his closest people.

Please read some of your summer poems for children.

Evgenia Lotsmanova: Summer? Then this: "Happy mooing, / Grasshoppers chirping, / Fragrant meeting / before dusk dawn, / Honey-fragrant / fragrance of the earth, / Sleep today, sun, / and burn again tomorrow!"

The exhibition of Evgenia Lotsmanova is open until July 22, 2012 in the cultural center "House of Ozerov" (Moscow region, Kolomna, Krasnogvardeiskaya street, 2).

Kolomna, Moscow region

From January 30, within the framework of the Youth Creative Workshop project in cultural center The House of Ozerov is hosting the Fairytale Forest exhibition dedicated to the Year of Literature in Russia. The exhibition presents book illustrations for the fairy tales of H. K. Andersen, a member of the Moscow Union of Artists Evgenia Lotsmanova.

About the author: Evgenia Lotsmanova was born in 1985 in Kolomna, graduated from the Children's art school and chose the profession of an illustrator. Drawing with early childhood was a favorite pastime - after all, Evgenia's relatives on the maternal side were icon painters in the Yegoryevsky district of the Moscow province. In 2007, Evgenia graduated from the Moscow State University print.

Now Evgenia Lotsmanova is not only an illustrator. She also writes children's poems and dreams of publishing a book, illustrating it with her drawings. The illustrator's profession accompanies and, to some extent, complements the artist's hobby - making author's toys: dolls and fabulous compositions from various materials (papier-mâché, paperclay, keramoplast, mohair).

The main part of the works at the exhibition are illustrations for the fairy tale The Magic Hill by H. K. Andersen. For a young artist, Evgenia Lotsmanova, Magic Hill is the second published book with her illustrations, which brought this fairy tale to life and cannot but arouse admiration. Still, how much an artist means to a book!

At the heart of the illustrations of this truly fabulous book - graduate work by the artist, but significantly revised for this edition. Drawings in a technique that is rare today, which is considered to be a heavy male technique - lithography. The rich artistic language and vivid expressive possibilities of the lithography technique helped to create a complex, cheerful and slightly mysterious world.

Evgenia herself writes about the chosen technique as follows: “Lithography allows you to experiment with the same sketch, varying colors and refining it in search of the best solution. And there is a charm in the miraculousness of the printed picture, which usually turns out a little differently than you expect ... I draw some heroes from the closest people, for example, from my mother."

Illustrations... They, like a light cloud, envelop and immerse in a fairy tale, create an unusually magical atmosphere. Evgenia Lotsmanova created small world, inhabited by creatures so cute that the fairy tale The Magic Hill will become one of your favorites! It seems that the illustrations created with such warmth and love cannot fail to resonate in the hearts of the audience. The Fairy Forest exhibition is a journey through the fairy tales of H.K. Andersen, which makes you want to read or re-read the marvelous tales of the Danish writer.

Cultural center "House of Ozerov"

Moscow region, Kolomna, st. Krasnogvardeiskaya, 2

Directions:

From Moscow: from st. m. "Vykhino" by bus number 460 to the stop. "Bank", from Kazansky railway station by train to the station "Golutvin", then by tram No. 3, buses No. 5,10 or fixed-route taxis No. 68, 20 to the stop. "Square of 2 revolutions"

"An illustrator is his own director, decorator and actor. I live the life of my characters, convey the character. The art of book illustration is very akin to the theater, sometimes you want the characters to jump out of the book and start talking."

Lotsmanova Evgenia

Evgenia Lotsmanova(b. 1989) - a young Moscow artist, a graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Moscow University of Printing Arts.

Evgenia was born and studied in Kolomna, attended an art school. She began to draw from early childhood. I loved to portray fairy tale characters, small animals that are very common in Russian folk tales. In 2002, she entered the Moscow State University of Printing Arts at the faculty of book graphics, so her passion became a profession. All her work is done in best traditions Russian school illustration. Now Evgenia lives in Moscow.

The artist began to work on the creation of drawings for "Magpie's Tales" long ago, back in 2004, but the result appeared only eight years later. This is due to the choice of execution technique, very complex and time-consuming - lithography. To create one picture, according to Evgenia Lotsmanova herself, it takes her from one to several months. (Lithography - writing, drawing and artistic drawing on a stone with ink and a special pencil, as well as scratching with a needle, followed by printing impressions on paper.)

Here is what Evgenia herself tells about the work on “Magpie’s Tales”:

"I love Tolstoy's fairy tales since childhood. He has a very juicy Russian language. It's great to feel that time, village life with huts, walking geese in the yard, with horses, a threshing floor, a well. I wanted to show all this. And the lithography is very unusual technique- it is interesting to create one sketch, and then vary the color in different ways. It's a fascinating artistic process that produces different effects."