158 Watercolor Paintings by Artist Atanas Matsoureff

Bulgarian Artist, Paintings, Watercolor Paintings

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Artist Atanas Matsoureff

Atanas Matsoureff is a watercolor, realist and a self taught artist. He was born in the town of Bansko, Bulgaria in 1975. In 1994, he was graduated from the woodcarving class in his native town. Later in 1996 he moved to live in Sofia. Atanas Matsoureff discovered the watercolor painting as a means of expression.

Atanas Matsoureff uses watercolor in his paintings from nature and he bows before the beauty and the forces of the nature, and the simple, ordinary things around us. He tries to catch the spirit of each material and to touch the thing beyond reality.

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Interview with artist Atanas Matsoureff
Thursday, 25 February 2016 via stcuthbertsmill.blogspot.com

Atanas Matsoureff is an artist renowned for his realist watercolors. He is a self-taught artist based in Bulgaria, and is an Ambassador for St Cuthberts Mill.

“Watercolor is a painting technique which offers an infinite scope of possibilities for artistic expression, highly demanding on the part of the artist concentration combined with passion. The beauty of watercolor painting lies in the white of the paper, the lightness, the movement, the transparency, the vibrant colors. I paint from nature and I bow before the beauty and the forces of the Nature and the simple,ordinary things around us. I try to catch the spirit of each material and to touch the thing beyond reality.” ─ Atanas Matsoureff.

Interview with Atanas Matsoureff – Feb 12th 2016

Tell me about when you decided to go “pro”. When did you decide to dedicate yourself to your art. Give us an example of what that meant to you. What pushed your artwork from amateur level to professional?

Soon after I had started to paint only watercolor and to explore it’s potential I decided to dedicate my whole life to it. The process of becoming “pro” is slow and invisible. To become a good water-colorist you need to dedicate years to figuring out the medium.

To observe, to be patient, to constantly think about it, to work a lot, out of love. I think the moment when I realized that things just started to happen and happen beautifully, and was much more interesting than hard to work with the medium was a step to professional level.

Please state which St Cuthberts Mill papers you use and why?

I like very much St. Cuthberts Mill papers because of their quality. I like to experiment with different papers – mould made, handmade, rag, not cotton, vintage papers. Can say that St. Cuthberts Mill papers are one of the best nowadays, they are somehow ultimate. I know I can paint everything on them without any doubts or fears about their behaviour as I know what to expect and what paper can give me. Mainly I use:

Saunders Waterford (NOT), 300, 425 gr. (both natural and high white),
Saunders Waterford (ROUGH), 300 gr.,
Millford.

How does the use of these papers enhance your work?

I think watercolor paper makes 80% of the work. That’s why it’s necessary to know the papers. It’s important to me to paint different subjects on different kind of paper. There is always a feeling of discovery, never boring. And for me as an artist painting in different genres it was always a pleasure that I could find appropriate papers from St. Cuthberts Mill.