Iordanka Karaivanova

Iordanka Karaivanova is an artist residing in Lake Mary, FL known for her realism and abstract art, custom portraits, and designs. She was born in Bulgaria in 1984 and moved with her family to the United States the beginning of 1999, after winning the U.S.A. Green Card Lottery in 1998.

Ms. Karaivanova’s beautiful abstract and realism paintings are diverse and vibrant, without limiting her artistic abilities to a certain style or medium. Embracing change, she loves expanding her art talent beyond a traditional medium by learning new techniques when working with different materials, which she believes makes her a better Artist, a constant learner.

Iordanka is dedicated to creating and working on her art each day. She believes that just like an athlete trains and exercises daily to stay in shape, in order to get ready for a game or performance, so too an artist should train and exercise their artistic skills each day. Therefore, Iordanka works on her art daily and produces realism pieces while at a location or from her personal travel photographs when at her studio. She is a dedicated en plein air painter and sketcher, and loves observing nature and her surroundings; it helps sharpen her skills and drives her imagination. While...

Artist Iordanka Karaivanova has a Bachelor of Arts in Business (Management Concentration) and Minor in Economics from Rollins College in Winter Park, FL. Before Rollins College, Iordanka explored different majors at Seminole State College, where she took every art class available and obtained an Associate in Arts Degree in General Education.

Artist Iordanka considers herself a self-taught artist, because she dove in creating art before learning anything about it nor knowing “proper” techniques. Karaivanova showed passion for art from an early age. By age four she was sculpting figurines from clay, making her own toys and creating art pieces. At age eight, she drew portraits with graphite pencils of her grandparents and neighbors, progressing to aquarelle and later to oil medium.

2019 FusionFest, Orlando, FL
2019 Live Art Charity Auction, Mels BGC
2019 CityArts Factory, 13 Annual Sensory Overload
2019 Lake Mary - Heathrow Festival of the Arts 32nd Annual
2018 8th Annual "Altamonte Art, Craft, & Wine Festival"
2018 27th Annual New Smyrna Beach Flamingo Follies – a Holiday Art Show
2018 Orlando Museum of Art 1st Thursdays event: Travel
2018 Wine Art Wednesday, Lake Mary, FL
2018 CityArts Factory, 12 Annual Sensory Overload, Orlando, FL
2017 WineART Wednesday, Lake Mary, FL
2016 Solo Art Exhibit at The Peacock Lounge, Sanford, FL
2016 WineART Wednesday, Lake Mary, FL
2016 CityArts Factory, Sensory Overload 10 Art Show
2016 Central Florida Earth Day, Lake Eola, Orlando, FL