The Apple tree Painting

My name is Bozhidara Stoeva - Dara. I was born in one of the most beautiful European countries, gave the world the Cyrilic alphabet, with more than 1300 years of Hystory, My 41 years living in Bulgaria have schaped my spirit, strenght and resiliense. Being a Bulgarian is pride and responsibility. Im proud of who I am. The next logical stage of my life continues in Austria, my favorite Alpine country, so I am fulfilling a dream of mine to live in Tyrol. The music, the food, the melody of the language, it all fascinates me and makes me feel part of them. with gratitude and love for Austria I continue to study and create here in the beautiful Alps, my second home in the last 6 years. I paint paintings born of my soul and heart. Guided by the spirit, I met my teacher Stefka Baldjieva, the woman who founded the first school of art therapy in World - finger painting. more than 1500 students from all over the world left our school and continued the tradition. I was the last student in this school. My dream is for this school to reopen. Our technique was appreciated by Sotheby's and 10 paintings were bought by them in London. over 5,000 paintings were created by our teacher before being transferred to another dimension, where I believe she continues to create her beautiful paintings. With deep gratitude to the Woman, the artist, the teacher - my secondmother who gave birth to me for art Stefka Baldjieva. My live in Art have two stages. First ist - Art Therapy school and second ... other Studies. I do oil paintings painted by fingers and spatula and my style is non traditional and punctual painting, Monochrome painting, Impressionism. Driven by the power of emotions begin to create straight fingers, inflicting oil on canvas. Stories come one after another, without prior attitude, what will be painted. Unconventional way of finger remains a "trademark" for my work. The paintings are born without an adjustment for story-line. Characteristic is that nothing recreates the kind of model. to be emotionally powerful a picture, it must have a soul, ie plot reflects the fine world of human feelings. Since words are weak to describe an experience with them, the magic of color and the play of forms can just touch the individual and trigger forms of empathy. My second stage, driven by the desire to try something new, met me with two men who left a mark in my technique, the Russian Igor Sakharov and the Nepalese Jim Magne Lisondra.