My creative vision
My artwork arises from a desire to reconnect us with the beauty of nature and the divine that surrounds us. Through painting, my work seeks to evoke a sense of peace, warmth, and wonder — feelings that lie at the very heart of my creative practice.
In my oil paintings, I often depict faces and figures emerging from semi-abstract nature backgrounds. Light plays an essential role in my work — symbolising hope, transformation, and our connection to something greater.
My creative process is intuitive and meditative. I begin with broad strokes to shape the composition and establish colour harmony, then slowly build layers of depth and movement. As each painting comes alive, I turn to finer details — drawing the viewer into a quiet presence, a moment of stillness.
In all my work, I seek to create pieces that resonate with the soul — offering peace, inspiration, and a sense of the sacred in the everyday.
The woman behind the brush
I grew up as a quiet child — the kind who watched, wondered, and took everything in. My parents would take my sister and me on long summer journeys through the mountains of Bulgaria. We jumped from stone to stone over Rila mountain creeks, hiked through ancient forests, and stumbled upon abandoned villages with hand-painted churches that seemed to hold their breath. In the Rhodopi mountains we made sledges from thick cardboard and flew down impossibly green hillsides, laughing. Nature was never somewhere I visited. It was where I felt most like myself.
When words felt too small, I found my voice through singing and drawing — two things that made me feel free. That longing for expression eventually led me to study Fine Arts, giving me the foundation to grow into the artist I am becoming still.
At university, something quietly shifted. Close friends opened a door I hadn't known existed at this depth — into the unseen world, into spirituality, into the love of God and the divine light that moves through everything. That love has never left me. It lives at the centre of everything I create. It is, I think, the truest thing I carry.
Then I became a mother — and understood love in an entirely new way. That fierce, tender, all-encompassing feeling a mother holds for her child is perhaps the closest we ever come to touching the divine.
All of it finds its way into my paintings. The nature. The light. The quiet longing for something greater. I paint because I love the feeling of creating — and because I hope that what I feel when I create, you might feel when you look.
