The artist Bistra Bakalova was born in Bulgaria and graduated from the Sliven High School of Art, Bulgaria, then she studied painting on the Faculty of Fine Arts, Veliko Tarnovo State University, Bulgaria. In 1988-1992 she graduated from the Kiev Academy of Art, Ukraine. She moved to Prague, Czech Republic, in 1992. The paintings of Bistra Bakalova take us to the enigmatic sensual world of a woman-artist, where spontaniety and irrationality co-exist with systematic thought and sound reasoning, delicacy of feelings interacts with strong will, and life is equal to love. Her works cannot be perceived by sense only; the password to them is sensitivity. Their themes are as if taken from the emotional subconsciousness of the viewer. Every oil of the young woman-painter is a quest, an attempt to grasp theme, and refracting it through the prism of modern artistic vision, to embody it in colours, lines and hues. Many of Bistra´s paintings can be found in private collections in Germany, Austria, France, U.S.A., Holland, England, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Australia, Brasil, Hong Kong Japan and many other countries. “Painting became the part of my being, the form of expression, conversation and way to escape. My dreams, childhood and memories fade into my pictures. They are my statement, my alter ego. I want to reach out people who feel my art and perceive it by their sensibility nor rationality. I account myself as introvert and hence the way to arouse public notice by pictures became matter of fact.”