NIKOLO BALKANSKI

BORN
1957, Sofia, Bulgaria

EDUCATION
Middle Special Art School for Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
N. Pavlovich Academy of Fine Art, Bulgaria
University of Helsinki, Finland

AWARDS & HONORS
2002-1996 Great American Artists Invitational, Cincinnati, OH
2002-1998 Portrait Demo Artist, Spirit of the Great Plains, Kearney, NE
2001-1995 Colorado Governor's Invitational, Loveland, CO
Collectors Choice Award 1999
1999 People Choice Award, Impressions of the Southwest
1998-1993 Artists of America, Denver, CO
1998,1993 Portrait Demo Artist
1995 Best Landscape, Arts for the Parks, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
1989-1995 Artists of the West, Featured Artist 1991

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Expressing the Visual Language of the Landscape" International Artist Publishing Inc. 2002
"Painting the Landscape" Southwest Art June 2001
"Selling more or selling out" International Artist Feb/March 2000
"Composing with Water" The Artists Magazine Oct. 1998
"Put it in Print" U.S. Art April 1995
"The Finnish portraits of a Bulgarian in England" Rodolubie 1984
Arts Review, London 1983
"Path to the Great Art" Mladez April 1980

REPRESENTED BY
Borsini-Burr Galleries, Half Moon Bay, CA
Gallery East, Loveland, CO
Gore Creek Gallery, Vail, CO
Hayden Hays Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
Saks Gallery, Denver, CO
Weatherburn Gallery, Naples, FL

Summer Dream
Nikolo Balkanski
30" x 40" Oil on Canvas

ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"A portrait is more than a physical likeness-it reveals the essence of a person"

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