Instinct and Image and everything in between

In this space, my work explores the persistence of instinct within constructed image-making. Using the animal as a recurring subject, I move between raw, symbolic mark-making and controlled, articulated forms, not as a linear evolution, but as coexisting visual languages.

RED COEXISTENCE
acrylic paint on canvas – work in progress
100/80cm
The paintings examine how image-making oscillates between impulse and structure, where neither state fully replaces the other.
YASEN IVANOV
Sofia, Bulgaria
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