
SVETLANA BOIKO - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes illustrations
Svetlana Boiko is a multidisciplinary artist from Saint Petersburg. She is a professional portraitist, book
illustrator and web designer. She also designs different packages and luxury real silk and cashmere
shawls. She finds inspiration in Russian mysticism, stories from around the world and in nature that
surrounds us.
Between 1991 and 1995 she studied at the Art College of Irkutsk, where she earned a red diploma in
graphic design. Then she was a student of The Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and
Design, department of easel and book graphics between 1995 and 2003. Her specialization is the art of the
book.
In 2003 she was the winner in the graphics category of a competition held by the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Saint Petersburg. In 2004 she had been admitted to the graphic department of the National
Union of Artists of Russia. In 2007 she was between the finalists of the All-Russian competition of book
graphics entitled ’Artists of the cherished dream’, Moscow. In that same year she took part in a memorial
design contest with the aim of commemorate people who were killed in the Anapa-Petersburg plane
crash. She took the first place. In 2016 she took the second place in the All-Russian contest of packaging
design for perfumes in Moscow.
2018 proved to be a very busy and successful year for Svetlana. She earned the second place in the All-
Russian Botanical Illustration Competition held in Moscow. After that, still in the aforementioned city,
the Darwin Museum held the All-Russian competition of paleontological illustration, where she won the
first place.
In London she received the People’s Choice Award at the international illustration competition BIC. She
chose The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to illustrate. We are honoured that Svetlana gave her
permission to show her fantastic artwork on our site. Thank you very much!

The websites of Svetlana Boiko: sventana.com
or svbo.ru
Svetlana's Instagram site: sventana.art
You can buy her sherlockian artworks here:
Sherlockian phone case, prints and art card
PUBLISHING DATE: 10/01/2021
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VASILY LIVANOV - More information and online video:

THE SHERLOCK HOLMES SERIES STARRING VASILY LIVANOV
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