| Silvia Dimitrova | |
|---|---|
| Born | Silvia Dimitrova Rea |
| Nationality | Bulgarian |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Website | silviadimitrova |
Silvia Dimitrova (Bulgarian: Силвия Димитрова) is a Bulgarian icon painter. She won a place at the School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989. She then studied icon painting in Sofia under the tuition of Georgi Tchouchev, a master iconographer in Sofia.
She held a solo exhibition in Paris, in the Cultural Centre Edmond Rostand, Rueil-Malmaison in 1997. In the spring of 1999 she was commissioned by Downside Abbey to paint the Icon of St Benedict, Wells. At the beginning of 2000 Silvia worked as an artist-in-residence at Wells Cathedral with a commission to paint the Fourteen Stations of the Cross as a project for the Millennium. In the same year she was married, in Wells Cathedral, to Simon Potter, a house master at Downside School, Somerset.
She works in the traditional technique of icon painting - egg tempera on wood.
References
- "Podcast: Bishop Graham Kings, Silvia Dimitrova, and Tristan Latchford on Nourishing Connections". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ Kings, Graham. "Inspiring people to pray is quite literally a work of art". The Times. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- Twiston Davies, Bess (28 March 2009). "A brilliant window into the divine and the eternal". The Times. reprinted as Twiston-Davies, Bess (30 March 2009). "Bulgaria, Love and St Benedict: the art of Silvia Dimitrova". Fulcrum Anglican. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- "Somerset based icon artist Silvia Dimitrova chats to Robert Hesketh". Great British Life. 14 January 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- Alan Ogden Revelations of Byzantium, Appendix. April 2001 ISBN 973-9432-32-8