Plamen Stoimenov Ignatov is 47 years old, an economist and an accountant. Since he was little, he had this passion for arts, especially for the plastic arts from wood and miniature.
His deceased father, the famous rebec-player, made his instruments himself and perhaps Mr. Ignatov was greatly inspired by him. His first significant creation was the castle “Victory”, made in 1988 after 8 months of hard work. It successfully entered the “Bulgarian Book of Records “. The castle was made from over 30 000
He has sold 40 unique items in Bulgaria and abroad. Plamen Ignatov also created his own style for making icons. His technique consist using matches, charring and blacken with smoke to obtain more real color of the mosaic.
He donated one of those unique icons, the one of St. Joan the Baptist, to the Ecclesiastic Seminary of Sofia in November 2008, during the ratification of his biggest achievement, “The Rila Monastery “.
“The Rila Monastery” remains the most important and valuable creation of Plamen Ignatov. The idea for the miniature came in 1989, after he dreamt that he was whittling a tree and building a Holy Temple. The work on the miniature took him 17 years and 2 months.
At the moment, Plamen Ignatov has put on sale some of his works: the castle “Victory”, “The Temptation”, “The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Sphinx”, The Rila Monastery and a catholic church from a painting of Bernard Buffet. All of those creations are one of their kind.
You can commission a custom-made icon or portrait.
The most major monastery in Bulgaria is the rila Saint . He is in the book written for protecting the memorials of the culture at Unesco. Alone the paste - up is 2 square metres and is complicated on slash with aim-his hyphenating. In nearest future its estimate impends and the policy as other washed creations. Visit my web site for more information:www.ignatov-art.com
