“This is very female art of painting in the best meaning of this term, very real and very impulsive. Jeni herself is a very sincere and open person…
She is not afraid to experiment and to use different canvas formats from the very small to the impressive sizes. In this matter there are no periods – among her oldest and among her newest paintings there are different canvas sizes because the size is determined by the inner impulse, by the spiritual needs of the painter.
I would like to focus the attention to her round paintings because this is an amazing building of the art of painting. I have seen only one another painter from Cypress to paint on round canvas, and Jeni is the second.
The key word in Jeni's art is “motion” – motion in the variation, motion in the search of impulse and emotion.”
Diana Draganova
Art Critic
“There is something amazing in the paintings of Evgenia Toteva – these are paintings which make you feel, they in the rhythm of your soul.
The painter Evgenia Toteva manages to show the whole magic of Nature with rich coloring and extremely precise purity of line. I was surprised that she paints with her fingers! Many masters of the brush could envy her ability to express the human soul over the canvas.
These are paintings flown with the beauty of Life. And although Jeni doesn't have any academical education, she managed really fast to find her own place among the Bulgarian creators and painters .”
Irina Avramova
Art Critic
“Jeni and her paintings – this is maybe one of the clearest evidences about the spontaneous, inexplicably arising process, which is called by us – the people – creation…
She stepped back and surrendered to the power which paradoxically connects different worlds through colors and light.
Jeni agreed to be one of the people who reflect this light most naturally, and this is the reason why it is so real and generous.
Dear Jeni, I wish you a long, joyful and never-ending journey towards yourself…!”
Atanas Kamburov
Painter
“Jeni's paintings have a very strong associative influence for different life situations, presented in shape and color. She reaches a level of reviving the images – everything is “singing and dancing”, trying to get out of the frame. Her paintings cannot be described. They have to be seen and felt. Really unique expositions.”
Stefka Baldjieva
Painter
“Arch – Art” Newspaper – A national weekly paper of the Bulgarian architects and painters
May 12, 2005
“The works of Mrs Toteva are different in their tonality, expression and feeling. They carry the eternal question of art about the lasting and the transitional, about the circle of life, about the light and the darkness.
The “Storm”, “Wisdom”, “Flash”, “Mirage”, and “Meditation” paintings have laconic names, but they make the spectator to immerse into the existential question “Who are we, what do we want, where are we going?”
“PARI” Newspaper
December 12, 2005
“Everyone says the same – Jeni infects with her dynamics, she succeeds to paint feelings, she manages to paint the soul.
Her paintings will make you happy. You will feel the breath of optimism, sun and prosperity…
You will also be surprised by something else – the shapes of the paintings which make you feel afraid that you will prick on the thorn, and the shape of the canvas – round. Jeni is not afraid to experiment.”
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