Growing up in the mountains of the small town of Etropole in Bulgaria, his artistic abilities didn’t stay unnoticed by people around him at a very early stage of his life (around 5 years old). By the age of 10 Georgi was creating Christmas posters for the bank in town, participating in events by doing art decoration, Christmas cards and lots of art gifts for people he knew.

At that time his passion and hunger for creativity caught the eye of Nikolay Georgiev – a well-respected landscape and portrait artist in Bulgaria who at that time led a community for teaching art. He invited Georgi to his community and he became one of his youngest members. After years of courses in his studio and out in nature followed by several exhibitions in Etropole, they developed a special bond.

He had opened Georgi’s eyes to a new world with no boundaries for the talent the young artist was told to have been born with.

Even at the time of big poverty in Georgi’s family, when he was unable to cover the expenses of his art education, Nikolay took it as his own goal to craft his skills and support him not only as a mentor but as a friend. Their relationship is still very strong until today.