Stefan Georgiev

Optimism and faith in life generate another key idea which runs through Stefan’s works - the initial and intransient value of creativity. Without it life is inconceivable, loses its importance and purpose. The artist recreates that particular idea  through the traditional imagery of fertility- fruits like the apple and the pomegranate, the sunflower, the fish that lays an infinite number of eggs but most notably through the image of the woman. As it is the case with every classical and intransient art, the woman is a central image in Stefan’s paintings. Although she wears different mythological, religious and legendary masks (Europe, Eva, the Virgin Mary, the Muses, the Slavonic wood-nymphs, etc), she is real and authentic because it is represented in its true life roles: a mother, a beloved, a protectress, a saint.

Along these ones, other images and symbols can be identified and they render a historical and diachronic perspective to the compositions: antique columns, crosses, keys, ancient heroes and mythological creatures and personalities (Adam, Icarus, Heracles, Athena’s owl, the lovers from the Song of Songs of Solomon). As we move from one painting to another before our eyes unfolds a feast of beauty, of the joy of life and the deep reverence to the eternal and invulnerable human values. All that represented through the decorative expressive media of the secession tradition which the artist has mastered to perfection, enriching it with his personal experience of the his native tradition, with his own wisdom and sensitivity. Evelina Mineva

Born in Bulgaria in 1954. He studied in both High School and College to be an artist. After graduation he painted professionally as well as illustrating 35 children's books. Stefan distinguishes himself with striking use of materials, oil, paper, gold leaf, silver and even textiles. His art is currently featured in Athens, Greece, where the artist lives and paints.