Mercurio Artist
ALEXANDER LAVDOVSKY
Alexander Lavdovsky was born in 1950 at Presov, Czechoslovakia. He studied painting and printmaking at the Fold Academy of Fine Arts. In addition, he attended the Institute of Graphic Arts for 5 years, where he mastered the crafts of letterpress printing and engraving. He pursued his career as an artist, engraver and printmaker. After his stay in Prague he lived shortly in Finland and Sweden, and then in 1974 moved to Canada, where he now resides and continues his work. Lavdovsky became one of the latest and the youngest member of the Limners Group.
Lavdovsky¹s art has been shown in one-man and group exhibitions in Czechoslovakia, USSR, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Switzerland and Canada.
Apart from his painting and printmaking, A. Lavdovsky operates Classic Engraving Limited, a commercially oriented, specialty print shop in Victoria, BC. Here he designs and produces engraved/embossed stationary, business cards, note cards and limited edition books.
He is also cofounder of Poppy press, a Victoria based small press. His design and illustration have earned him several prestigious awards including two First Prizes in the Alcuin Competition for excellence in book design in Canada.