Elvira Pyrkova is an artist living in the United Kingdom. She studied at the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum of the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute. In the United Kingdom her work has been featured in galleries and art fairs in cities like London, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Bournemouth, Birmingham and Stratford upon Avon. She was a finalist for the Garrick-Milne Prize; the painting short-listed for this award was exhibited and sold at Christie’s London. Her work was twice short-listed for the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists’ Prize. Elvira Pyrkova’s paintings are part of private collections in Japan, France, Germany, Russia, Mexico, Canada, the United States and Great Britain, as are paintings and commissioned portraits of select collectors like Isabel Goldsmith and Mario Moreno Reyes ?Cantinflas? Foundation.