Silvia Dimitrova (Bulgarian: Силвия Димитрова) (born 1970 in Pleven) is an icon painter. She won a place at the prestigious School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989. She later studied icon painting in Sofia below the tuition of Georgi Tchouchev, the grand master of Bulgarian icons, and was invited to exhibit her statute in Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, amongst the elite society of icon painters.
She held a flourishing solo exhibition in Paris, in the Cultural Centre Edmond Rostand, Rueil-Malmaison in 1997. In the spring of 1999 she was commissioned by Downside Abbey to paint the Icon of St Benedict, Wells. At the arrival of 2000 Silvia worked as an artist-in-residence at Wells Cathedral with a commission to paint the Fourteen Stations of the Cross as a project for the Millennium. In the same year she was married, in Wells Cathedral, to Simon Potter, a home master at Downside School, Somerset. During this period she was afterward nominated and shortlisted for the European Women of Achievement Awards 2000 for contributions to the Arts. Since then Silvia has been working on both private and public commissions including St Paul’s Cathedral, London and Hertford College, Oxford.
She works in the established technique of icon painting – egg tempera on wood, with her pretend covering the cumulative spectrum of standard Bulgarian icons and native works.
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