Anna Tikhonova-Yordanova

07.11.1977 – Born in Minsk – Belarus. Residence in Bulgaria.
Anna Tikhonova-Yordanova - painter, graphic artist and printmaker. The main focus of the artists creation lays at the field of watercolor paintings and engraving. She exhibited with solo shows in Belarus, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Belgium, China, Germany, Estonia, Czech Republic, Poland. She received more than 20 international awards for exlibris and printed graphics.
She is mainly working with etching technique printed as high print, using gold or silver pigments on black paper. She tried some kind of collage with origami and embroidery with silk strings on the graphic surface.
She likes to get orders from overseas exlibris collectors because they give her the opportunity to touch different cultures. She claims the art process is a game of line and texture, of white and black, of light and shadow, of the miniature and the monumental. She likes technical experiments, using all the classical printing methods such as etching and engraving. Because she’s also fond of the effect of negative film, she frequently works with black paper.

1989 – 1996 Republican School of Fine Arts – Minsk (Belarus). Diploma work – illustrations to the own poetry cycle “By touch” (paper, aquarelle).
1996 – 2002 Belarusian State Academy of Arts, graphic art department – Minsk (Belarus).
Diploma work – illustrations to the own play “Dreams of a dialogue” (hand-made book, colour etching techniques). Curator – Valery Slavuk.
2004 – 2007 post graduated education, department of theory and history of art, Belarusian State Academy of Arts.