Marina Zhvirblia

Marina Zhvirblia is a Belarusian artist working in etching and illustration. She trained at art school, an art college and an academy of arts. During her academy studies, teaching by Roman Sustov encouraged her sustained interest in etching.

Her prints explore imagined explanations for familiar natural phenomena. In Entomology, a beetle emerges from a plant bud; Night imagines the arrival of darkness, while Vanitas brings the span of a human life into a still-life composition.

Her Stones and Flowers series grew from journeys through Belarus and reflects on abandoned manor houses, lost architecture and the gradual return of ruins to nature. Zhvirblia has also produced bookplates and literary illustrations. Her work has been presented in exhibitions including Art-Minsk in 2019 and a group exhibition of young Belarusian graphic artists at Tallinn's Mere Cultural Centre.