sphynx cat (2020) Drawing by Petya Shopova

Passionate about art since she was little, Petya Shopova comes from a family of Bulgarian artists. Growing up, inspired by her father's art, she began participating in exhibitions of young artists at the age of 6 and sold her first paintings in her father's workshop around the age of 12. . After this experience, the young designer continued her training in a foreign language school to realize her dream and continue her studies in a fashion school in France. During this training, she used her free time to enroll in different art courses: painting, drawing, calligraphy, graphic design and jewelry. She chose to continue her studies at ESMOD Paris, and therefore moved to the fashion capital. Petya participates in several partnerships thanks to ESMOD where she has the chance to work with professionals in different fields and styles, such as denim with Lee jeans or the Hard Rock Café competition, where she won the “most t-shirt” award. creative” She also collaborates with other young creators like Trifon Andrev (illustrator) and Boris Andreev (musician) also known as Archlrd. They worked together on their INCANDESCENT subject to create a whole collection of neo-futuristic screen-printed t-shirts.

Influenced by her father who specializes in graphic art, the young artist creates very ink drawings. symbolic in the same style as his father-graphic art. The great painters of the Renaissance like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci are her greatest inspirations and the theme of anatomy made her take up sculpture. Passionate about this new discovery, she works with plaster and clay to create small sculptures and bas-reliefs.

• Nationality: BULGARIA
• Date of birth : 1997
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• Groups: Contemporary Bulgarian Artists