Silvia Dimitrova

{{short description|Bulgarian icon painter}}

{{Infobox artist

|name = Silvia Dimitrova

|birth_name = Silvia Dimitrova Rea

|birth_date =

|nationality = Bulgarian

|occupation = Painter

|years_active = 1989–present

|website = {{URL|silviadimitrova.co.uk}}

}}

Silvia Dimitrova ({{langx|bg|Силвия Димитрова}}) is a Bulgarian icon painter.{{cite web |title=Podcast: Bishop Graham Kings, Silvia Dimitrova, and Tristan Latchford on Nourishing Connections |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2020/2-october/audio-video/podcast/bishop-graham-kings-silvia-dimitrova-and-tristan-latchford-on-nourishing-connections |website=www.churchtimes.co.uk |access-date=15 February 2022}} She won a place at the School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989. She then studied icon painting in Sofia under the tuition of Georgi Tchouchev,{{cite web |last1=Kings |first1=Graham |title=Inspiring people to pray is quite literally a work of art |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/inspiring-people-to-pray-is-quite-literally-a-work-of-art-2mmbx5p35 |website=The Times |access-date=15 February 2022 |language=en}} a master iconographer in Sofia.{{cite news|work=The Times| date= 28 March 2009 | last=Twiston Davies | first=Bess | title=A brilliant window into the divine and the eternal}} reprinted as {{cite web |last1=Twiston-Davies |first1=Bess |title=Bulgaria, Love and St Benedict: the art of Silvia Dimitrova |url=https://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/articles/bulgaria-love-and-st-benedict-the-art-of-silvia-dimitrova-by-bess-twiston-davies/ |website=Fulcrum Anglican |access-date=15 February 2022 |date=30 March 2009}}

She held a 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 beginning 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 house master at Downside School, Somerset.{{cite web |title=Somerset based icon artist Silvia Dimitrova chats to Robert Hesketh |url=https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/things-to-do/somerset-based-icon-artist-silvia-dimitrova-chats-to-robert-hesketh-6925498 |website=Great British Life |access-date=15 February 2022 |language=en-UK |date=14 January 2010}}

She works in the traditional technique of icon painting - egg tempera on wood.