Nadia Tsakova was born in 1977 in Plovdiv. She studied Printmaking at National Academy of Arts in Sofia. While she was still a student in Bulgaria she won several national awards and competitions and when she moved to England she continued to gain recognition, winning prizes for exhibits in London at the National Print Exhibition and Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Since moving to London, Nadia has been working predominantly as a figurative oil painter. Her paintings are part of many private collections in Bulgaria, Greece, Italy as well as in the UK
My biggest challenge is to express the light as I sense it. Light is my favorite quality in a painting, it creates the forms, the movement, the relationship of the tones and finally it forms the composition. I emphasise the light in my paintings through a tonal selection of dark and light forms. I am inspired by capturing a certain moment, a unique glimpse of our present, transforming it into revelation. So it makes me and the viewers appreciate the beauty in the simple moments of life.
