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BIOGRAPHY

1955

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, into a family of artists: of architect parents and grandparents sculptors, painters, poets and writers. Thus, Mila was introduced to drawing, sculpture and painting at a very young age.


1970-1971 

In high school, she illustrated a health magazine.

1973-1982 

Mila attends drawing and painting lessons and, as a free auditor, courses in life model drawing at the Sofia School of Fine Arts and at the Bulgarian Artists' Society

 

1974-1976

Mila studied advertising and decoration in Sofia. At the same time, she carried out a wide variety of advertising projects as a collaborator at the national advertising agency Bulgarreklama, and created fabric decorations for the CNMM fashion house.
 

1976-1978 

She works as a decorator in the network of galleries, showrooms and shops of the Society of Bulgarian Artists, where she is responsible for hanging. It is then that she has the revelation of the beauty of icons.

1978-1984 

She collaborates with two cultural centres on a wide variety of activities: design, scenography, costume design, curation of exhibitions and painting competitions, advertising and posters.

1980 

Passionate about the art of the icon, she passed the competition to become a member of the Restoration and Iconography Atelier of the Society of Bulgarian Artists. This is where his career as a professional iconographer began.


2003-2010   

She teaches iconography, pastel, watercolour and oil painting in Sofia.

2004 

She visited Provence and, seduced by the beauty of its sites and nature, she undertook a series of radiant landscapes.

 

2009 

Having met a group of artists in La Courneuve who, seduced by the vigour of his art, offered him to exhibit in their gallery. So Mila decided to come and settle permanently in France.


Since 2011 

She regularly participates in the major parisian art exhibitions.


2012   

Mila is invited to become a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.

2015   

She settled in Sèvres after living in Paris for a while.

2016   

Mila joined the Independent Artists of Ville-d'Avray, shared their studio and participated in their activities.

2017

Mila became a member of the Société Versaillaise des Artistes d'Ile-de-France and the Amis des Arts de Chaville, of which she became a member of the board of directors in 2019.

2018

A great tribute was paid to her at the Hôtel de Ville de Sèvres by its mayor and the art historian Yann le Pichon.

 

Mila became a member of the association Les Peintres du Marais, and since then has exhibited regularly in their Atelier-Galérie, and participates in collective events.

2021

She joined the associations CréArt and Forum Sévrien, where she teachs painting and drawing.

2023

Mila becomes a member of the Taylor Foundation.

She is a founding member of the association Peintres-Sculpteurs-Photographes Paris Centre.

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