Nikolay Vlahov

My journey has started in a small town in Bulgaria, South-eastern Europe. I discovered my passion for drawing and writing while creating comics in my early childhood. Building these dream worlds is my initiation as an artist. Along my creative path my self-expression has been channelled through a gr...

My journey has started in a small town in Bulgaria, South-eastern Europe. I discovered my passion for drawing and writing while creating comics in my early childhood. Building these dream worlds is my initiation as an artist. Along my creative path my self-expression has been channelled through a great variety of art forms.
My thirst for capturing the beauty of the present moment found its expression in photography. I graduated the School of Photography at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Art in Bulgaria in 2012 and won numerous awards for my work. During this fruitful creative period, I discovered another of my passions - stage and costume design. I was further invited to create the stage design and costumes for various theatre plays and dance performances.
My artistic aspiration brought me to Berlin, where I participated in numerous workshops and exhibitions. My curiosity about the creative expression in different cultures led me to the country of the never-ending-summer, Indonesia. In the exotic environment of University of Arts Indonesia in Yogyakarta, the county’s creative capital, I discovered and fell in love with the ancient art form of batik. There I dedicated a year of his creative journey to mastering the artisan of this fabric design craft. My work represents the magical fusion of the traditional Javanese batik technique and contemporary methods of intuitive painting. He creates a series of hand crafted scarves inspired by the breath-taking nature of Indonesia, the genuine batik symbols and his philosophy of live.