PANCHO MALEZANOV
Pancho Malezanov: “I was born in 1964. I started painting seriously at age 15. That was the time when I was accepted into the School for Applied Arts in my home town Sofia.
I couldn’t imagine working anything else. For me, painting was always my “call”. In my teenage years I was strongly influenced by Bulgarian artist – GreddyAssa. Hundertwasser’s works also inspired me a lot.
My first paintings were mostly abstract landscapes. I painted with oil and pastel. This “period” continued about 5 years. For me, nature is large part of my inner peace; therefore painting nature brought out my “self”.
I would dare to call my landscapes “flying landscapes”. Hence, I see most images in my head from “above”, or from a “bird’s” point of view. This approach characterizes the majority of my landscape works.
I do my best in my work when I feel the presence of love. For me, the presence and the inspiration of the loved one plays important role. Later, my work “evolved” with painting still nature, birds, animals, and some particular “machineries”: laptops, airplanes, boats, and submarines. I had a special vision on how to include those objects in my paintings.
Music, and most particularly jazz, play very important role in my life and in my work. Jazz gives me a lot, so I feel obligated to “give back” to jazz through my paintings.
I also work on graphic design. My logos can be seen on major ads. I designed the logo for the largest sports newspaper in Bulgaria.”
The prominent art critic Maximilian Kirov wrote about the artist: "As an artist Pancho Malezanov always prefers to interact with nature directly, but it is difficult to call him a landscape artist in the exact meaning of the term. He is not interested in particular details, but prefers to unite the entire scenery through a randomly situated point of view, which does not take into account the horizon line or the static position from which each natural object is seen. This point of view almost always has a peculiar “bird’s plan view”, which allows him to contemplate a panoramic scene. This is a “bird’s eye vision” where the retina captures separate aspects of reality during the very flight. Consequently, it is difficult to imagine the author’s micro cosmos via traditional concepts as up, down, left or right. In Bulgarian painting only the Great Kazakov has ever dared to depict nature in this way. Nevertheless, Malezanov is not his imitator but a true continuer of this graphic principle."
100 x 100 cm 2025
The Forest Oil on canvas
Abstract
Oil on canvas
90 x 90 cm 2025
The Eyes Of The Tiger Oil on canvas
81 x 90 cm 2024
Night Traffic
Acrylic and pastel on paper, framed 100 x 70 cm
Lady Lion Oil on canvas
105 x 90 cm 2024
Oil on canvas, 90 x 123 cm, 2024
Boats
Flying Landscape
Oil on canvas, 90 x 120 cm
Silhouettes
Oil on canvas
100 x 100 cm 2024
The London Bus Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm, 2012
10 x 8
Oil on canvas
100 x 100 cm
Lancia
Oil on canvas, 90 x 132 cm, 2019
Rolls Royce
Oil on canvas, 88 x 132 cm, 2019
Kaleidoscope
114 x 100 cm 2024
Sunny Sea Oil on canvas
The Handsome (Mercedes Benz)
Oil on canvas, 84 x 145 cm, 2020
Bently
Oil on canvas, 89 x 130 cm, 2017
Oil on canvas, 65 x 120 cm, 2017
Cadillack
Oil on canvas, 90 x 132 cm, 2017
Fiat
Maybach
Oil on canvas, 80 x 125 cm, 2017
Jeep
Oil on canvas, 65 x 82 cm, 2020
Oil on canvas, 90 x 120 cm, 2016
Mini
Oil on canvas, 85 x 120 cm, 2016
Mercedes
Oil on canvas, 68 x 105 cm, 2018
BMW
Mercedes 300
Oil on canvas, 70 x 130 cm, 2016
Citroen Oil on canvas
105 x 89 cm 2017
Lady Horse
Oil on canvas, 100 x 125 cm, 2016
I Love Amsterdam Oil on canvas, 80 x 130 cm, 2016
The Big Apple Oil on canvas
120 x 75 cm 2020
Wimbledon
Oil on canvas, 60 x 120 cm, 2020
Butterfly Oil on canvas
106 x 114 cm 2017
Leo Oil on canvas
105 x 120 cm 2017
Hay Hill Stillife
Oil on canvas, 90 x 122 cm, 2013
Piranha (Stockbroker)
Oil on canvas, 92 x 140 cm, 2011
Oil on canvas, 85 x 140 cm, 2016
Tulips
Fishing Boats
Oil on canvas, 92 x 124 cm, 2013
Love Couple
Oil on canvas, 95 x 125 cm, 2011
Swan Lake
Oil on canvas, 105 x 142 cm, 2017
Oil on canvas, 92 x 115 cm, 2012
Cormorant
Office-Piranhas
Oil on canvas, 120 x 145 cm, 2011
Landing Parrot
Oil on canvas, 93 x 133 cm, 2013
Parrot Oil on canvas
10 x 120 cm 2017
Eagle Eyes
Oil on canvas
105 x 110 cm
Colibri
Oil on canvas, 107 x 145 cm, 2014
Grasshopper
Oil on canvas, 93 x 115 cm, 2012
Houses In Storm
Oil on canvas, 120 x 145 cm, 2011
Houses
103 x 93 cm 2012
Oil on canvas
Jumbo Jet
Oil on canvas, 92 x 120 cm, 2012
Oil on canvas, 93 x 115 cm, 2012
Piano
Music
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 92 x 120 cm, 2013
The Eye
Oil on canvas, 59 x 114 cm, 2019
The Bush Oil and acrylic on canvas
100 x 100 cm 2020
Gravity
Acrylic and oil on canvas
100 x 100 cm 2020