Olive's Creative Collections

“The most inspiring thing for me is nature—flowers are from a completely different world! Sometimes my friends bring exotic flowers for me from all over the world, which is fantastic,” says Russian Instagrammer Elena Limkina (@limkina), who gave up a career in medical engineering to pursue her life’s passion as an artist. Inspired by great artists from Renaissance painters to Victorian architects, Elena explains, “I create patterns for brands, prints and pictures for interior design, illustrations for magazines, and I post the process and details of my work on Instagram. My creative process is intuitive and sometimes I find new artifacts, mixing colors on my palette, then I write down a color formula that I found during the process.”