Zheni Warner

Zheni is the daughter of the noted Bulgarian artist Violeta Maslarova. Migrated to the UK, where she attended Norwich School of art under Ed Middleditch and John Wonnacott., and where she later taught life drawing.
She insists her method of working is 'purely traditional' insisting on light form and tone, although she uses modern materials such as light boxes, neon and illuminated wire. Her paintings are extensions of her exuberant personality.
Over the years she has exhibited extensively in the UK as well as most of Europe. Her paintings are to be found in many private and public collections in the UK, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Bulgaria, South Africa, Hong Kong and Australia.

Her use of layers of colours builds up to a transparent surface, emphasised by the excitement and brilliant use of paint in their form. A French critic described her paintings as having "the colours of Rubens and the rhythms of Bartok". English critics have variously described them as “a concerto in colour”, “aqueous jewels” and “fluorescent, floating entablatures of scintillating colour”.

The current works incorporate light boxes, neon and illuminated wire in a variety of combinations. All of them function happily as paintings in their own right...

1981 Norwich School of Art BA Fine Art Painting
1978 Norwich School of Art, Foundation
1972 German Language School, Bourgas, Bulgaria

2022 June to September Nottingham Open at NAE, Nottingham
2022 HRH Princess Margaret commemorative exhibition, London
2022 Cultivate Gallery
2021 Finalist REFRESH art prize
2021 Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
2021 Finalist Holt art prize
2020 Art Number 23, London
2020 Living House Gallery, Brighton
2019 Ultra 19, London
2019 Nordart, Carshutte, Germany
2018 Thompson's Gallery, London (solo)
2016 Richmond Hill Gallery, London (solo)
2015 Castle Fine Art, Mayfair, London
2014 Galerie Mariza Frozen, Berlin, Germany
2010 Royal Academy, London
2004 Contemporary British Abstracts, Galerie Last, Zurich, Switzerland