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Jean Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
www.jeangallery.be

Gallery at Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, USA
www.artsy.net/artist/tanya-atanasova

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PoetsArtists group, USA
www.poetsandartists.com

All about hyperrealism and hyperrealist painters website, France
www.hyperrealism.net

Clatia, China
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Because we all love varnish porn! 💖✨
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Ten days left to the opening of my solo show YOU MY DEAR in Edegem!
Time to put it in your agenda and check you in at the event on FB! ☑️☑️ Vernissage: October 15 / 20:00

Open until December 15
Wednesday & Friday from 14:00 to 17:00
Weekend from 10:00 to 12:30 and from 14:00 to 17:00
I will be present every Saturday afternoon! 💕

Huis Hellemans, Strijdersstraat 14, Edegem
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After a heavy, but productive and satisfying work day, my granny used to say: "I did earn my bread today".
Last week I did deserve my bread indeed... these were long atelier hours... How about you, did you earn yours? 🍞 😉

WIP on Sooraj... It's a bad phone picture of course, with lots of light reflection from the large windows, but this piece is coming nicely together and is almost finished!
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Every artist has a painting that has stayed a little longer in the studio than some other pieces, waiting for the final brush touches. This is mine - a portrait of filosopher, thinker, architect, artist, chess addict, sailor, beekeeper and a good friend of mine Philip Bitrakov... I started working on his portrait a few months ago, trying out my very first set of Rosemary brushes on a small canvas. Last week I glazed it and it is now ready to join my collection "You, my dear" on display starting November 15 in Edegem near Antwerp!
Stay tuned!
Ps: I haven't named it yet, can you think of a good title? . . .

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A few days ago MUSEUM OF ART added several of my works to Hall 1 of their permanent online exhibition. Here is the poster of it! I think it looks awesome, what do you think?! (check link in bio) ✨🖼️✨
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I finally got my hard copy of the catalogue of ADORN ME project!
I can look at this magazine forever! I'm happy to have three paintings included in it (swipe left to find out which ones)! This exclusive project was a beautiful cooperation between Chicago based ZHOU B. ART CENTER, South African curator CAROL HODES, American publisher DIDI MENENDEZ and ARTSY PLATFORM! ❤️
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So, there is this painting I already talked about a little on social media before I left on a holiday… I finished it a few months ago, but had to keep it a secret for a project and I think it is time to fully reveal it!

So this is "Tiger" - the story of a person who is very dear to me (he has allowed me to use his real name and story, but I prefer to respect his privacy). He was born in a female body and although we all loved this little, beautiful, skinny, dark-haired, happy-go-lucky girl, everyone knew there was something about her that wasn't completely right - too shy, too scared, too sensitive - we could only guess... He felt trapped in the wrong body for so long - it left deep scars on his soul.... he was a boy and could barely wait until 18 to move on with his life as a handsome young man.
This painting is made from a photograph I took about 2 years ago at his parent's place, somewhere in the middle of the transgendering process (he looks a lot more masculine now) but it has become my favourite painting so far because of the many layers in it. There is so much going on there, but at the same time every attribute makes perfect sense - its a room/huge crossroad between the past and the future, the child and the young adult, the girl and the boy who once lived there, the favourite Asia and Europe where he grew up, the "shall I study, shall I work" - doubt, the" should I stay home a little longer or is it time to really leave my parents"..... Colours on the picture are a little bit off, but it is very hard to take good picture of a dark, varnished painting... "Tiger" and many other paintings I have createded in the last three years will be on view in November at my solo show in Edegem, near Antwerp. Everybody's welcome! "Tiger" - oil on Belgian linen, 100 x 140cm, 2019
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Starting to work on another model-dancer today and thinking of this portrait of professional dancer Judith Van Oeckel I made two years ago. I still love this work, but because I sold it very quickly, I believe it didn't get enough exposure.

It's very difficult to express dance or any motion in a static portrait. To create more dynamics in the piece I gave it this special small but long format of 24" x 79" (200cm x 60 cm). I chose for a contrast/tention between the large face and the smal canvas and I gave the hair space enough for a beautiful pirouette and that made this piece more exciting.

The size of this work is not a good size for IG post, so I made a collage of two pictures. On the picture below is my model Judith next to her portrait, just to help you picture the real size of it...
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