Maria Petrovna Morsina was born in the city of Tula in 1977. She studied at the Tula children’s art school named after V.D. Polenov and vocational school number 25, where she studied wood painting professionally. In 1995 she took up woodcarving, since 2002 she has been engaged in engraving, in 2011 she mastered the scrimshow technique. In 2016 she was awarded the Small Badge of the Order “Carl Faberge – Court Jeweler”. In 2017-2018 she completed an internship at the State Hermitage Museum. Maria is a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Decorative and Applied Arts and the Guild of Gunsmiths.
Best Artists of Russia 2020