My name is Silvia Haralambova. I am a contemporary Bulgarian artist working in the field of fine and applied art.
I have inherited the love to art from my grandfather who was a textile designer at the textile factories all around the country.
Since my childhood and school years I loved to create different art works like dolls from a variety of natural materials. I have painted aquarelles, pastels and sketches too. Then I began to do woven sweaters, jackets and woven wall hangings made of natural materials, some of them combined with carved wood.
As a schoolgirl I took private lessons in Painting. Later I attended private lessons in Woodcarving and in Technique of Acrylic Painting.
As an artist and a person, acting with senses and feelings, I would say that art works speak more than words. I let my creations talk about themselves. They alone can show the ways and things which inspire and give me a fillip to do the works.
The roots of my inspiration can be found in the traditional Bulgarian folklore and ancient cultures of tribes and nations - some passing by and others settling down on our territory, but somehow all of them / Thracians, Slavs, Ancient Bulgarians, Celts, Hellenes, Romans, Scythians, Persians / leaving a trace after their presence.
I am trying to unite all this multicultural and ethnical diversity in my works, using symbols and other specificities, reconstituting them through my vision.
My works have participated in exhibitions in USA - Old Lyme Gallery, Connecticut; Triad Gallery, Oregon; Box Heart Gallery, Pittsburgh; in Canada - New Westminster Public Library, Vancouver and in Germany - International Art Exhibition “Man and Nature” in Nationalpark Harz, Sankt Andreasberg
Parts of my artistic biography are my participations at the Artist in Residence Programs at Valparaiso Foundation in