“Everywhere is a mess because of me... home, the office, the studio - everywhere is an atelier.” Vania Goshe does not let location get in the way of her art, she simply adapts. “In the studio I use oils, at home, acrylics, and in the office it’s inks, pastels or watercolours.” The versatile expressionist feeds off spontaneity. “I never know what I am going to paint... I’m an old-fashioned artist waiting for the muse.”

Goshe left her native Bulgaria when she fell in love, relocating to Malta, where she now lives with her husband and daughter. Artistically it was a fertile and encouraging space, so she left behind her career in cinema to pursue fine art. “Malta made me an artist,” she says fondly, citing the sunlight and scenery as her primary inspiration.

With her joyous, celebratory canvases Goshe seeks to uplift her viewers and provide an escape. Like the Impressionists she so admires, Goshe uses her favourite tool, the palette knife, to apply daubs, flecks and patches of pure, un-mixed colour, like confetti or laughter in the air.

Goshe studied at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia. She is frequently commissioned and has exhibited extensively in both Malta and Bulgaria.