Minna Georgieva’s Paintings Shine at the National Council Gallery
Dispatches
The Magazine of the British Business Forum Kuwait
by Graham Hawkins
Minna Georgieva opened her Ambient Contemporary Paintings Solo exhibition in the Ahmed Al- Adwani Gallery at the Abdulah Al- Salem National Gallery in Kuwait on 26 March. Guests were immediately impressed by the colour of the work, which was vibrant yet ethereal revealing its inspiration by nature and unusual manifestations of natural forces such as mists, rainstorms, sunsets, thunder, and occasionally by photography. The making and subsequent use of special colour is a result of a formula which was invented by Minna who builds her paintings with many layers of thin colour to the required depth to achieve the feeling of air.
Minna’s formative period in art started with very classical studies of the surrounding world in painting, drawing, sculpture, composition and graphics and later on continued in much more abstract visions of that same world with larger paintings in oil and mixed media. She has said that there is joy in letting the paint drip and mix with pigments freely. She lets incidents inspire her and control the structuring of her paintings. Of her own work she has said that the
…actual individual process of making each painting is one that can never be identically repeated. Each time I play with the colours and use an approach when applying the paint that I hope will allow the feeling of space and depth to gradually appear. However; I am very conscious of not overloading or clogging the work with too much information, just enough
Her work repays careful contemplation, for through the study of her chosen subjects Minna creates artwork, which contains features not apparent at first glance. Indeed the artist hopes that the observer will use imagination to make of a painting whatever the mind wants it to be, the titles of the paintings being s I m p l y suggestions to allow that freedom of choice.
Minna Georgieva was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1981 and was educated in Bulgaria studying at the Sofia High School for Fine Arts. In 2003 she graduated from Chelsea College for Art and Design in London with BA in Fine Art (Painting). She now lives and works, as an artist in London, is a gallery manager and art consultant for exhibitions, fairs, auctions, museums and design in the media of painting, photography, sculpture and ceramics. The British Council in Bulgaria has awarded her two first prizes for the painting and design of greeting cards; Minna’s paintings have been exhibited in more than fifteen venues worldwide, at seven shows and private collections in the Middle East, USA, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and Bulgaria. She was the youngest artist to be part of the International Biennale in Kuwait representing Bulgaria.
