Anna Mihaylova

Sacrament

I present my exhibition, united under the motto “Sacrament” 2024. The mystery of the visible and invisible world. I present to you picturesque landscapes. The sea, its waves and colors are recreated as a harmony of endless blue. I paint mystical horses and unique landscapes from Cappadocia. My quest is to capture the beauty of the earthly and the unearthly. The theme of angels deeply moves me, and I present a cycle of angelic visions as a revelation. I hope my paintings will fill you with spiritual light.

Journey

I present my exhibition, united under the motto “Journey.” Life is a fateful journey—we experienced the pandemic and lockdown. This awakened in me a desire for freedom. A journey that energizes and brings a spark in one's eyes. My path led me to magical places that bring inspiration and joy to the heart. By painting a mystical reality, I aim to recreate a mysterious vision of light. I present to you vivid landscapes and abstractions of the spiral of life. My quest is to capture the unseen and the beauty in all its forms. These are journeys through time that lead to the doorway of the past, with the key being the knowledge encoded in the symbols of the alphabet and faith. I hope my paintings will fill you with spiritual light.

Exhibition 2020

I present my anniversary Exhibition 2020. My quest is to capture the unseen and the beauty in all its forms. By painting a mystical reality, I aim to recreate a mysterious vision of light. In this exhibition, I display paintings grouped into thematic cycles. The Mystery of Bulgaria: Inspired by folklore, I painted works that embody the beauty and strength of Bulgarian women. The Beauty of Nature: A collection of paintings inspired by the sea. Contemplating it, I see the spiral of life in its forms.

Angels

The angels are messengers of light, and they have fascinated me over the years. Inspired by iconography, I created original icons and paintings. I present a cycle of angelic visions as a revelation.

Symbols

The square, the circle, the triangle, the swastika and the cross are being used from the ancientness. The square represent fixture, steadiness. The circle professes the sun, the perfection and the harmony. The swastika is symbol to the nature's circle and the fruitfulness. The cross expresses the immortality and the resurrection. The Triangle is symbol of a human, ambition, direction. Inspired by those graphic marks I draw the "Symbols" cycle, consist of 7 abstractive squares.

Fragments from antiquity

Inspired by decoration and ceramics though the ages, I draw the "Fragments from antiquity" cycle.

New spiritual Vision

The age–old boards that bring coat of time and the tradition of the icon with new sounding append the exhibition.

Mystical landscapes

I show as well landscapes, bringing a charming reality. The road and the temple are leading subjects and are interpreted Authorial.

The Way

I am excited by the Way to the arousal, harmony and eternity. I connect ideologically the conventional poles of the east and the west in quest of eternally. The way is vague, dim but it comes completely with characters, symbols and turns. We are led by the desire to conquer our peak but when we acheive it we realize that the way goes on beyond the visual and noticeable...

Impressions

Myths are a never-ending theme to many authors as a symbol of love, fruitfulness and the flight of the spirit. As a subject of two of my paintings I chose the legend about Orpheus. The enigma of his muse and love I relate to the mysticism of the Rhodopes. The singer and the mountain become one. In a greenish blue tonality I recreate the enchantment of wine from the vine to the glass of rejoicing. I drew the Pegasus and Icarus flight as a fairy-tale in warm colors.

Erotic

The naked body is provocation and revelation. Aquarelle re-created romantic fantasies uncover female body in the light of abstract landscapes and glittering azure. The fire of passion is performed in bright pallette of warm colors, and the variety-show painted in poster style rhythms in figure composition.

Plenaries

The various and vivid landscapes impress you with different degrees of colorfull spaces. Interesting visual point–low horizon, without sky, stresses the mountain's greatness. Artistic landscapes in warm colors reproduce the calmness and the gold autumn radiance.

Summer Sea

The sea is inspiration for the artist. Here performed seascapes differ from typical marinistics. The immensity and the power of marine element is re-created by rythm of spiral moovement in abstract composition. The painting carries the blue-green marine colors.

Inspiration from Nature

Marine Impressions

The Marionettes

All the messages here are presented by figurative compositions built over abstractive or symbolic decorative background or stylized landscape. The naked body is in the middle of the composition.

Butterfly

The Mystery of Bulgaria

The mystery of Bulgaria is a cycle dedicated to the bulgarian traditions. Folklore myths and legends are visualized over decorative motives and ethno elements.

Stairway to Heaven

The works performed here are bridge between the iconography and fine art and between decorativeness and expressiveness.