Zhanna Lopatkina

Panel "Skull" 2020 size: 282 x 330 x 30 mm

At the Alatyr 2019 competition in Kaliningrad at the Amber Museum, the work received a personal diploma of the jury member Alexander Krylov.

For two decades of working with amber, I noticed that natural Baltic amber has a different flavor when heated.

If in whole take all the volume of amber processed by me, you can confidently divide its aroma into the following percentage:

  85% - the main mass. Amber has the smell of pitch of pine, with a touch of the smell of the sea.

  10% - amber with dark inclusions, the so-called "slag" (the name used in the Kaliningrad region).

To the smell of resin is added a distinct smell of peat.

   4% - amber of different shades from the total amount when heated has a pronounced flower aroma and less pronounced smell of resin

   1% - strong smell of swamp.

published 2017

In the Kaliningrad Amber Museum on June 28 at 18.00 the opening ceremony of the Fifth International Biennial of copyright works Amber "Alatyr - 2013" and an exhibition-competition «AquaTerra» took place.

These work ( series of "Aquarium" ) were awarded diploma in the category of "Mastery".  

For two decades of working with amber, I noticed that natural Baltic amber has a different aroma when heated.

If you take the entire volume of amber processed by me, you can confidently divide its aroma by the following percentage:

85% - the bulk. Amber has a pine resin smell, with a touch of sea aroma.

10% - amber with dark inclusions, the so-called "slag" (the name used in the Kaliningrad region).

A distinctive peat smell

4% - amber of different shades of the total amount when heated has a pronounced floral aroma and a less pronounced smell of resin.

1% - pronounced smell of the swamp.

published in 2017