Petya Deneva

She was born in 1981 in Balchik.
She graduated from the National School of Arts “Dobri Hristov” in Varna, and later – the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, majoring in painting with a master’s degree.
Petya Deneva’s painting is poetic, delicate, bright and ethereal.
“The coast and the sea talk to each other constantly. I have been listening since I was little, but the only thing I understand sometimes is how the coast is angry with the sea for stealing its rain. The other is a beautiful sound. I am sure that the fishermen can speak their language and once upon a time they made an agreement with them to be mediators in their negotiations.”
I walk near the sea with similar thoughts in mind and draw stories in my imagination – the boats, the fisherman and the rocks, the sun and the reflections in the waves. With my feet buried in the dirt and sand, I spell out the alphabet of the language. Close to the sea and with hope, I shoot my gaze far away towards the horizon of the water. When will I be able to draw you and tell you wave by wave, with all your mystery and depth!?
But nothing, for now I will look from here – through the roofs, through the trees, through the shadows of the vine leaves and the white of the shores. shares the artist Petya Deneva.
Her works have been presented in more than twenty exhibitions in Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, etc.
In 2004 she received first prize from a national competition for young artists, curators and critics of the International Foundation “St. St. Cyril and Methodius”, and in 2002 – a one-year scholarship from the “Raina Kabaivanska” Foundation. She has been a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists since 2010. In 2014 she was awarded a two-month stay at the Cite internationale des arts, Paris.
Member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists since January 2010.