Your journey from Bulgaria to Canada, combined with your background in printmaking and book illustration, gives your work a rich cross-cultural perspective. How have these varied experiences influenced your current explorations of language and digital art? For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by the relationship between signs and the meanings they intend to convey or…

Your work often delves into themes such as identity, memory, and vulnerability using long-term conceptual series; how do you decide which personal or universal question becomes the foundation for a new project? For me, a new project usually starts with an idea that begins to develop in my mind. I may start thinking about a certain question, feeling, situation, or…

What are you currently exploring in your artistic practice that excites you the most? I've begun to combine a couple of my latest series of work into more figurative pieces. These look at the social anxiety that information overload instills in many of us. They are elongated, twisted and distorted, but very exciting. Organic mixes with a mechanical, graphic interpretation…

What are you currently exploring in your artistic practice that excites you the most? I am currently exploring how my paintings can move beyond the flat surface and become more sculptural. In my latest experiment, Anatomies of Becoming, fragments inspired by equine anatomy emerge from the canvas through clay and relief. The horse has long appeared in my work as…

What are you currently exploring in your artistic practice that excites you the most? At the moment, I am deeply immersed in a new body of work exploring geometric abstract surrealism. It is the most exciting direction my artistic practice has taken in recent years. In this series, I use the hexagon as a symbolic window—a portal into another reality.…

What are you currently exploring in your artistic practice that excites you the most? I am working on silly chickens. It amazes me that they are so generally loved, while I only started making them for fun. But people seem to connect to the fun they emanate. Even non-art lovers understand my painting and feel happy looking at them. I…

What are you currently exploring in your artistic practice that excites you the most? I am currently exploring the idea of making large oil paintings using some of my watercolor pieces as references. These are mostly floral images. My watercolors tend to be loose, abstract, and small, while in my oil paintings I try to make them glow. I would…

What are you currently exploring in your artistic practice that excites you the most? What excites me most at the moment is the ongoing development of my painting practice. I aim to create work that feels light, beautiful and positive at first glance, while carrying a deeper, more subtle message underneath. I love that duality: the image can be enjoyed…

What are you currently exploring in your artistic practice that excites you the most? What excites me most right now is exploring the meeting point between realism and abstraction. I love creating expressive, textured backgrounds that hold emotion and history, then bringing a realistic female figure to life within them. Through layers of acrylic, texture paste, handwritten elements, and resin,…

What are you currently exploring in your artistic practice that excites you the most? I’m deeply engaged in exploring how emotional states can be translated through color, atmosphere, and gesture. Lately my work has shifted toward more expressive, abstracted portraiture and equine forms, pieces where the figure feels illuminated from within, almost as if the inner life is pushing through…