(b.1954 Bulgaria)
Zheni came to England in her early 20s and studied
Fine Art Painting at Norwich School of Art. She exhibited
continuously at Elm Hill Contemporary Art in Norwich 1998-2005.
From the late 1990s Zheni's paintings were inspired by poetry: the sweeping imagery
and haunting visions of Dante’s Divine Comedy; Seamus Heaney’s translation
of ‘Beowulf’ and more recently by poems of John Keats, T S Eliot,
Byron and W B Yeats.
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Her painting is not a literal
interpretation but a general response to the poem as
a whole.
The works are mixed media on canvas and
on board, and her richly coloured and glazed surfaces
have been described by a French critic as having “...the
colours of Rubens and the rhythms of Bartok”. For
others they are ‘a concerto in colour’ and ‘deliquescent jewels’.
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