I spent four months living in Morocco, in spring 2024.
This is a selection of observational drawings I made during that period.
This practice made me realise many things about how I perceive the purpose of sketching and I am glad that it was more of a social experience than an artistic one.
Some characters drawn for the simple joy of making them, and a more concrete character research of a loving mother, full of joy and laughter.
Early morning conversations in the sea,
hot and sleepy afternoons,
games in the sand...
in short, enjoying life after the Covid19 isolation.
Asini and Elafonisos, Greece.
July 2020
A daily journal of my two-week quarantine, imposed by the government as a preventive measure to the Coronavirus (March 2020).
A couple of the sketches have been included in the special online edition of VIJ! Mag, in April 2020. The full interview is available on their website. Later on, the magazine turned into a book, published in collaboration with Janet 45 Publishing. It’s an anthology of diverse artworks such as poems, photography, and illustration, all made by artists living in Bulgaria.
Also, with some colleagues of mine, we made a QUARANZINE.
Artists share their experience of the quarantine from the four corners of the world (Cambridge, London, Dundee, the Peak District, Torino, Ferney-Voltaire, Mataró, Sofia, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Puntarenas)
This work, that you can fully read here, is given to you with an open heart in hope to ease your personal experience of the quarantine, wherever you are.
Places of silence and an untamed nature.
Bulgaria, spring 2020.
Reportage illustration, mostly in Cambridge and Sofia.
Sketching in the streets always sparkles the most unexpected, entertaining and sincere conversations with my models!
Also, I love to write down bits and pieces of dialogues I hear while I sketch. Most of the time they are completely unrelated to the subject I’m drawing and it’s creating surprisingly good crossings!