Welcome to my website! I am a Bulgarian-born Australian artist working in oil painting, printmaking, drawing, illustration and ceramics. My paintings, which encompass both the figurative and the abstract, are created using classical music from composers across different periods in a unique synthesis of idea, music, and visual art. My monoprints are created with an original printmaking technique, which I invented in the 1980's, that brings the bright, lucid colours of oil painting to the world of the graphic medium. Numerous books and wine labels have been illustrated by me as well. Besides my artistic work, I also write poetry and children's stories.

On this site everyone can experience something of my art by browsing a large collection of paintings, monoprints, ceramics etc., reading short essays, explanations and artist statements, and searching for artworks after a given composer. There is also a small selection of my poems in both English and Bulgarian.

About my art

I create my paintings using classical music, weaving in the works of composers from the Renaissance and Baroque to the Postmodern periods to form a unique synthesis of idea, music and visual art.

My recent project called Altar of the Resurrected Sun (under the Projects menu at the top) collects a number of my paintings together and is one of the best introductions to my art for everyone who has never seen it before. Information about the music associated with individual paintings can be seen next to each painting via the Oil Paintings Navigation page (under the Artworks menu) and also when browsing chronologically or searching by composer – see below. Regarding the musical connection in my paintings in general, I have written an explanation on the Art and Classical Music page. Multimedia overviews of all facets of my art can be seen in the form of YouTube videos on the Video Series page (also under the Projects menu).

Besides the Altar project and Music pages, the Oil Paintings navigation page, as well as the artist statements spread around the site and synopses for individual works give additional information on my paintings and art in general. The page dedicated to the printmaking technique I have created provides insight into my unique monoprints, while the Biography page and CV provide a chronological overview of my artistic life and work as a whole.

My works have been successfully exhibited and sold throughout Australia and abroad. In the past I have worked with TVH Gallery (Sydney), Istral Gallery (Sydney), BMG Gallery (Adelaide), Greythorn Galleries (Melbourne) and Gallery O (Perth).

Searching and browsing artworks

You can search and browse my paintings created to the music of various composers using the form under the Find... menu. A search facility is also included in that menu, which uses Google and allows arbitrary searches. Alphabetically sorted lists of all my artworks on this site can also be browsed (in text-based form) via the Browse... menu.

About purchasing artworks and art-prints

With regards to purchasing something of my works, high quality Gicleé art-prints on archival paper or posters please see the Purchasing page for more information.

Using my artworks as illustrations

If you would like to use any of my artworks for illustrations, promotional brochures, advertisement materials etc., please contact me to make arrangements. Examples of where my art has previously been used include music CD covers (e.g. Weinberg's 24 solo cello suites, DIVOX, to appear after 2013), pamphlets for musical productions (e.g. State Opera SA for Pucini's "Madama Butterfly"), book illustrations and wine labels (Peter Lehmann, Brangayne of Orange etc.)

*   The calligraphy of my name Annael was created for me by Jordan Jelev – The Labelmaker.