Exhibition of the artist D. Stoykova - Inspiration

About the exhibition:

In the delicate world of art and its creators – beauty makers, the concept of inspiration is so familiar and often used that it almost borders on a cliché. But – only almost, because every creator, be it a musician, painter, artist, singer, poet, or dancer, will admit that without inspiration there is no art. It is the pinch of salt that makes the magic taste; it is the magic that creates perfection; it is that inexplicable state of mind called duende and charisma, which makes us happy to be creators!

The "Inspiration" exhibition by Daniela Stoykova, on the occasion of the first birthday of her gallery, is exactly the pinch of salt that makes us happy to share this experience with her.

The large number of new paintings presented are the result of the artist's inexhaustible creative inspiration, which encompasses her entire life. She lives in each of her paintings just as intensely and devotedly as each of these paintings lives its own life in hers. And this is the happiest dual-unity that gives birth to the artist and art as one.

Daniela Stoykova is an inspired artist, which makes her paintings inspired, because she breathes life into them! Each of her paintings is alive, shines in its own way, radiates joy for existing, and brings happiness to our eyes, allowing it to stay with each of us. Not only during these few hours of the exhibition, but to enter our lives and remain in them!

Daniela knows how to be inspired by everything that touches her heart and soul; she can see beauty in all its forms; she can give color, scent, and taste to this beauty with her brush and paints. And she does it so subtly that we are left speechless by the incredible nuances in the color palette of her landscapes; by the enchanting aroma of roses, violets, lilacs; by the caramel-sweet taste of sunsets; by the crisp-cool breeze of dawns in her paintings.

Daniela loves to paint. The sea, winter, spring and autumn, flowers, dreams, and visions are her inspiration, her journey in the world of art and beauty. But they love her too. Whether she paints small landscapes with fishing boats, picturesque coastal bays with fig trees and nestled old houses, or races against the sea waves with a frigate under full sail – it doesn't matter, she pours her whole soul into the painting she creates.

Delicate and gentle in plot selection, precise and accurate in stroke and drawing, unusually imaginative but always harmonious in color, Daniela Stoykova's oil paintings surprise, provoke, embrace, and win the hearts of her viewers with sincerity and friendly empathy.
Sunrises and sunsets are an emotional state of elation and excitement that Daniela experiences and transforms into paintings with saturated, often unusual, but very fine and gentle, gradient colors that seem to come from dreams, with an ethereal palette of colors. They are everywhere – in the sky and in the reflection of the sea, flowing like gold and silver on the coastal rocks, spreading across the sandy beaches and making them pink-beige, transparent green, violet-purple, and orange-blue.

The sun in Daniela's world of painting can hide anywhere and surprise us by stretching its golden rays from all possible angles and directions. It is in the whiteness-filled, wind-swollen sails of the boats, in the emerald transparency of the waves, in the crystalline airiness of the honey-pink shades in the sky. It falls asleep in the purple-gray, pale blue, and transparent evening mist of the sunset and wakes up in the crisp, caramel-sugar, pink horizon of the dawn.
This repeats constantly – in the winter landscapes, in the spring ones, and in the autumn ones that Daniela paints with love, delicacy, refined aristocracy, and disarming, childlike sincerity. Each of her paintings welcomes us like a home we know – with the scents and colors we remember from childhood, embracing us with the hands of a mother and calming us with the voice of a father. This sense of home, family, and belonging is at first inexplicable in Daniela Stoykova's painting but is akin to her immense love for flowers, which have a special place in her heart and soul, and she paints them continuously – in all kinds of plots and formats, regardless of whether she encounters them in her day or sees them in her dreams and