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Painter Lora Stoyanova draws from life
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Art is something that Lora Stoyanova has been involved with since she first got her hands into something that left marks behind. Raised around galleries and artistic people, Lora became a professional artist while attending in high school in Bulgaria. Lora currently shows her work at The Basement Gallery in downtown Boise.
Lora says ideally she would like to be a famous artist, but she says, “You never know if I’m going to work in McDonald’s or something.” Lora has been working toward a visual arts degree at Boise State for two years since she moved here from Bulgaria. She says it’s hard to know what she is going to do with her degree, she is just enjoying the moment and all of the possibilities that are out there.
Lora says her motivation the painting shown came from the book “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint Exupery. Lora says, “I think very few people will get excited about this work because there is a cultural barrier in understanding it.” She says in the atmosphere she lived in “The Little Prince” is a well-known book, and the painting is hard to understand if you haven’t read the book.
The painting is roughly four feet wide and four and a half feet tall. Lora says her work is mainly abstract expressionist, and it depends on color combinations. She says she prefers warm muted colors, but says she can be wild and crazy with high key, high value, and high contrast painting. Lora says she is mainly working with oil painting for school, “Right now I find oils most versatile, although before I was working extensively with pastels. I count oils as the master medium, but I am in the processes of discovering and rediscovering.” Lora says that if we are so happy about having reproductions and photographs and unoriginal art then we will just have a fast food version of art in our lives.
If you would like to see more of her work you can email Lora at lora@rmci.net.