Olga Martinova is a canyon country artist who designs and creates fine art jewelry using many of the metals, semiprecious stones, and minerals found in the desert, including the rare and wonderful Azurite crystals that come from a mine in Lisbon Valley south of the La Sal mountains. Her strong designs are naturalistic, resembling leaves and vines and desert thunderstorms, but her materials and techniques result in pieces that are sleek and modern - even technical

A native of Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia once more), a vibrant city with a rich artistic tradition, Olga grew up surrounded by art and artists: her mother was Valentina Perozchkova, a well-known sculptor in Leningrad; her father was the poet and writer Alexei A. Martinov.