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©Tsvetana Nedeva

Tsvetana Nedeva

  • Kinderlist
  • Paper artist
  • Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Rising Star
Tsvetana Nedeva Paper artist
Contact
Bulgarian, English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+359 897037739
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A life narrated in colourful paper

  • • Tsvetana is a self-taught paper artist with a background in fashion
  • • Her children prompted her to launch Kinderlist and develop her paper creations
  • • Commissions vary from shop windows to sets for fashion shoots

Tsvetana Nedeva spent her time as a child inventing colourful worlds. "In my fantasies sheep had red ribbons tied over their hooves, rabbits wore my dolls' dresses, chickens sat with my family at the table and ate with forks," she recollects. Today her paper creations represent impressive and vivid sets from her imagination. Tsvetana pursued fashion at school and Library and Information Science at university. In 2016, inspired by her studies and her children, she started her own blog, Kinderlist, with the intention to present and review books from her home library. Over time Tsvetana enriched the photo posts on this blog by staging specific decors for each book. That is how her passion for paper work began, nowadays her sole profession. Tsvetana designs paper toys, custom pieces, home objects and entire sets, which transport viewers to a fairyland: lightness and vividness are mixed in with quirky shapes and fantastic creatures.

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Works

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Strelitzia

Three strelitzia flowers with a handle length between 170 and 190 cm, made of cardboard weight of 220 g. Two are in a dark blue, and one is in a light blue with orange elements. These flowers were inspired by the PLANTATION A/W 2021 collection of the Bulgarian brand Knapp and were created to complement the photo shoot of the collection. For some of the photos, the flowers are placed in the background, and for others in the hands of the model.

Photo: ©TsvetanaNedeva
Christmas Choir

These five figures are made of different cardboard thicknesses. The largest is about 220 cm tall and stands for a singing Santa Claus. The two smaller figures depict a singing Snow White and a toothy Nutcracker in a red uniform. The other two objects are a singing dwarf and a green Christmas tree with toys and a silver star on top. This composition of figures was made for the Sofia bapa store window in celebration of the 2021 Christmas season.

Photo: ©TsvetanaNedeva
Puppets

Three string dolls made of thick cardboard recreate different types of birds. The bodies, heads, beaks and feet of the birds are made of cones. Their legs are made of pieces of white string that hang loosely. The birds have paper elements that represent stylized feathers on their bodies and heads.

Photo: ©TsvetanaNedeva
Daisies

These 3D daisies were created from several types of paper. All of them feature white petals, yellow stamens and green stalks. The diametre of each flower is about 30 cm. They are part of the summer decor for the window of a children's shop in Sofia called Loved Bebe.

Photo: ©TsvetanaNedeva
Wolves

These 3D masks are made of 220 gsm paper and recreate wolf images in various shades of gray, beige and ecru. The masks are designed to be worn and cover the upper half of the face only. The masks were created for the musical "Beauty and the Beast", performed by students in the first grade of Sofia’s Espa Secondary School.

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