About

Vania Goshe

Vania Goshe was born in 1976 and grew up in Chirpan, South East, Bulgaria, where she showed an early interest and talent for Art. She furthered her studies at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia graduating in Cinema, Television and Advertising. At the same time she was actively pursuing her artistic interests by attending classes in drawing and painting. After leaving university, she worked as a videographer in television and as cameraperson for international film companies.

In her spare time, she began to take part in joint and solo art exhibitions as well as accepting commissions. Since settling in Malta in 2008, she has been working as a freelance artist and participating in numerous exhibitions, local festivals and events.

Although she works in a variety of media and materials, she prefers acrylics and pastels. She finds that these suit her style and method of working. Pastels give softer tones and lend themselves perfectly for creating very subtle gradations of colour necessary in portraiture to achieve a realistic and natural result. For other subjects they can be used successfully on a white or black background to enhance the effect.

Acrylics, on the other hand, with their more vibrant colours are particularly suited to her abstract work. She favours the brighter end of the spectrum which reflects her optimistic and energetic approach to life and art. She likes to use acrylics with other materials to create 3D effects in collages especially on subjects which combine realism and fantasy.

She finds that landscapes lend themselves to both media depending on the intended mood and effect desired.

Her mission is to help viewers to escape for a few moments from some of the harsher and uglier realities of life. She strives to lift their spirits and to instill a sense of optimism by portraying harmonious and colourful compositions as well as to accentuate the positive through the use of colour and aesthetically pleasing arrangements of shapes and forms.

She finds inspiration in many aspects of Maltese life and culture with its wealth and variety of traditions and activities. She is particularly attracted to the predominance of the Mediterranean sun on the sea as well as the creamy limestone architecture, changing its attractive shades at different times of day. This came as a somewhat unexpected, but welcome, revelation after having grown up in the extremes of a continental climate and since coming to live in Malta has given a new dimension to her work.