Born on 07.11.1977 in an artistic family in Minsk.
She finished the Republican School of Fine Arts in 1996 (diploma work: illustrations in aquarelle of own poetry cycle "By touch") and graduated from Belarusian State Academy of Arts, graphic art department in 2002 (Diploma work: illustrations in colour etching of own play "Dreams of a dialogue", a hand-made book). In 2007 she finished a post graduate education at the Department of Theory and History of Art, Belarusian State Academy of Arts.
She is the author of publications about modern Belarusian and European ex-libris. Her works were published in Boekmerk (Belgium), Exlibriswereld (Netherlands), AIE (Italy), Contemporary International Ex-libris Artists (Portugal), DEG-Mitteilungen, (Germany) and the Russian ex-libris magazine.
She is a member of the Belarusian Union of Artists and of the Union of Belarusian Writers. In 1997 she started participating in exhibitions and won several prizes, such as:
- 2004 Grand Prix at the 4th Triennial Ex-libris Bratislava 2004 (Slovakia).
- 2005 1st Prize of the City of Sint-Niklaas for Intaglio Printing, 15th International Ex-libris Biennial Sint-Niklaas (Belgium).
- 2005 The 3rd Prize at the 1st International Biennal Exhibition of Ex-libris and Small Graphic Forms "Europe in signs", Gniezno-2005 (Poland).
- 2005 8th International Print Biennial "JOSEP DE RIBERA". Finalist, Honorable Mention. Xativa (Spain).
- 2007 Nomination in the International Small Engraving Salon 2007, Florean Museum (Romania).
- 2009 1st Mention at the 5th International Ex libris Contest "Homage to Astor Piazzolla", Tandil, Buenos Aires province (Argentina).
- 2009 Honorable Mention at the Beijing 1st International Exhibition of Erotic Ex-libris, Beijing (China).
- 2010 Honorable Mention at the 3rd International Ex-libris Competition Istanbul-2010, Istanbul (Turkey).
She is mainly working with etching (C3) technique printed as high print, using gold pigments on black paper. She tried some kind of collage with origami and embroidery with silk strings on the ex-libris surface.
Tikhonova regards the ex-libris as a unique possibility to combine literature and art. She likes to get orders from overseas collectors because they give her the opportunity to touch different cultures. She claims the art process is a game of line and texture, of white and black, of light and shadow, of the miniature and the monumental. She likes technical experiments, using all the classical printing methods such as etching and engraving. Because she’s also fond of the effect of negative film, she frequently works with black paper.
