Ivanichka Paneva is an artist deeply in love with the romantic corners of the Bulgarian landscape and the architectural heritage of Bulgaria’s ancient capital - Veliko Tarnovo.
Her landscapes of her hometown carry the unique atmosphere and color of an artist profoundly connected with this city, whose rich historical destiny resonates in the spaces touched by only a handful of Bulgarian creators blessed with the spark of divine inspiration.
Paneva’s paintings evoke the feeling that she reveals the familiar as if for the first time - the same, yet transformed through her brush. Her Tarnovo appears like an amphitheatrical stage of the visible, behind which lies a secret known only to her. It is as though she lends us her eyes to rediscover the known in a new way. In landscapes, interiors, terrains, flowers, and still lifes - genres that typically mirror reality - she transcends that reality, breaks it down, and rebuilds it in her own artistic manner. The colors, tones, and nuances in her work form a vivid symphony of hues, turning color itself into music.
