Sometimes the name of a painting is born before the painting. Sometimes the play of words inspires the play of colours.

I love them both. I love the game.

Plamen Monev was born in 1961 in Beloslav, Bulgaria. In 1980 he graduated at the National High School of Plastic Arts and Design “Academician Dechko Uzunov” in Kazanlak, Bulgaria. In 1988 he graduated the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria from the class of prof. Peter Mihaylov.


Plamen Monev works in the field of oil painting, graphics, and illustration. His is the project for the mosaic icon of St. Nikolay Chudotvorets at the lighthouse in Varna, Bulgaria.