Anatoliy Stankulov

Anatoliy Stankulov was born in 1956 in the city of Ruse, Bulgaria.

In 1982 he graduated in landscape architecture in Sofia. He also studied illustration and book design at the National Academy of Arts. A postgraduate qualification in journalism followed.

From 1983 to 1990 he worked as an artist in a number of Bulgarian newspapers and magazines. From 1990 to 1994 he was the publisher and editor-in-chief of the humorous-satirical magazine SHUT. He was the director of an advertising agency and the art director of a foundation. He has illustrated over 200 books for various Bulgarian publishers. He has participated in over 700 exhibitions of paintings and cartoons in Bulgaria and around the world. He is the author of dozens of solo exhibitions around the world. He lives and works in Sofia.

He himself states: "I prefer to paint my dreams for the past days. To dream of them through new and new pictures, already refracted through the mind and knowledge of the years and unconsciously colored by the heart. I am accumulating a collection of dreams about the blue of the sea, about the eyes of the fish, about the ruined faces of the fishermen, about the Lowlands, about Bosch and Bruegel, about the first light on the horizon from the still missing sun.