Nikolay Primov

I am 55 years old (born on 11 December 1964), a painter, sensory photographer and creative artist from Sofia, Bulgaria. When I was 26 years old, I had a car accident (in one taxi) and I had a very serious heads-on automobile collision that has left me comatose
for nearly four hours in the ER. After that and after many operations, I was absolutely blind for about 4 years. Now I paint and make sensory photographs with only4 % VISUAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY. The medias said that I am the only semi-blind painter of stained glass (not vitrage) in Bulgaria and maybe in Europe. Doctors think, that my story is unparalleled as it demonstrates yet again
the incredible adaptation and compensatory capabilities of the human brain, a triumph of
mind over matter.
The Sensory Photographs, which I present you in Saatchi Art are from 2016 and 2020. Sensory photography is a kind of photography, which is for blind or semi-blind photographers and it is created in Mexico. For now, there are sensory photography lessons only in Mexico, Bulgaria and maybe almost in no other country, so it is UNIQUE and different! I also present to you a few of my paintings on canvas (nude women's bodies). If you are interested, I could show and offer you my Stained Glass pai...

I have secondary professional education in the field of Conservation and
Preservation and an additional specialization in Sensory Photography (2016), and have been
actively creating unique art in stained glass and other media for more than 30 years. Also, I have made Sensory Photographs since 2016, and I had one Photo exhibition in the same year.
I have performed significant restoration works on various Eastern Orthodox churches
in the capital city of Sofia and its vicinity. For some of my creations I have used previously
discarded stained glass pieces, filled with alabaster, going back in time more than
100 years, and originating from the National Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia.
Some of the creative techniques I am using are listed below:
 Painting and drawing by means of fingers and wooden sticks on glass, canvas and so on.
 A fusion of painting and stained glass techniques, glass painting, not stained glass, canvas and so on.
 Some of the dyes used are based on older technologies, using Bulgarian natural
pigments, mixed with modern thinners,

In Sensory Photography I use the projecting of paintings, pictures, figures and forms on bodies, and these photographs are color. I also have Black and White photogra...

I have made a series of exhibitions and art installations dealing aiming to support
handicapped individuals in arts, and culture.
 Next follows a representative sample of my various social and cultural activities
as reflected in Bulgarian media:
 The life story of a semi-blind painter:
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 Nikolay Primov - a partial history of Art Exhibition “Vanishing Species”:
http://www.lifebites.bg/izchezvashti-vidove/
 Nikolay Primov - the only semi-blind stained glass artist in Bulgaria -
http://www.bgnow.eu/news.php?cat=2&cp=0&newsid=20122
 Nikolay Primov’s participation in the 2013 Pocket Festival with his reproduction
on glass of Leonardo Da Vinci’s world famous Mona Lisa painting:
https://sites.google.com/site/pocketfestival/jivopis.
 Nikolay Primov’s participation in the 2016 Photography Exhibition on Sensory
Photography:
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