Peter Mitchev is an authentic painter. I mean that he is not a painter - flatterer; I mean also that he doesn`t obey the accents of the new academisms, which are clear about the aesthetic codes of a certain epoch. His inspiration, obtained consciously or not from the sources of his native territory, straight from the earth forces of his Bulgaria, leads him to the original spirituality of his first cosmic emotions. This is a painter who through the colour of his questions of an artist recovers our inborn trend towards the light and the reflexions it makes.

And thus, from one art-school to another, he underlines his personal mystic through deviations, that multiplies the religions and their symbols.

In the western world, so sophisticated, materialistic and complacent, where many painters wish to be accepted, he arrives like a magician, coming to heal the wounds of the broken senses.This may make him naive in the eyes of certain people, but this is the simple, naked truth which from experience to experience, from exposition to exposition reveals a wonderfull mastership.

There isn`t an art, more solitary than painting : the writer communicates always with somebody; the musician with God or instruments of God; the painter is accomodated only with his intimate perception for the secret of the things intuitively. And from this point of view Peter Mitchev is really an authentic painter. He is leaving himself on the dictate of his own nature, terribly human in the art to please the others. That`s why he will always be popular, this is the fundamental quality of an artist and this is the most difficult to attend.

Guy Shelley
Director of " Sudden Theatre ", Paris