Liliya Pobornikova was born in 1979 in Bulgaria. She studied at the College of Art in Tryavna and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. In 2008, she completed her Master’s course with professor Peter Bonev, focusing on sculpture in wood. She is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists. She has attended a number of sculpture colonies internationally. Pobornikova lives and works in Spain. The flowers created for the Forma Viva in Kostanjevica na Krki are based on the artist’s lyrical poetic of aesthetic apotheosis, which is inspired by the genesis of nature, while trying to stay true to the forms created by nature itself.