Diliana Nikolova - Graphic Art / Illustration

For me painting is a haven – a kind of existence in a more secure, more orderly place. In this place the artist is privileged, as much as their creative abilities allow it – the artist can rearrange, mend, shape and sometimes wipe away the made-up world. We, artists, are egocentric – to a smaller or bigger extent.

But these feelings are later ones – feelings gained as one gets older.

In my family everyone had artistic professions. Art (I come from Eastern Europe – Bulgaria) was a place for some freedom, in art one could express their own opinion and have a position different from the official one. As a child, of course I knew there were other professions, I even wanted to be a doctor when I grow up. But at home Art was put up on a pedestal. My father was a writer, my big brother a film & theatre director and musician, my sister became an actress so for me it felt the only position left was that of an artist – I am joking of course. And my mother had to put up with all of us and our art!

I work in the sphere of caricature, satirical drawing, puppet theatre and animated films.

I like to observe people. I like the individual. There is not a person that is uninteresting or unimportant – blessed with a mind and free will. I only wish that humankind was not so restless. Again and again the tower of Babel or mazes are being built, in which the trapped person hopelessly looks for an exit.

I haven’t got a special place where I work. I most often like to sit on the floor in my bedroom with the paints around me. I like scribbling so I always carry a pencil with me.

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