Ivan Vasilchin
Ivan Vasilchin was born on 23 September 1974 to Dimitar (Miti) Vasilchin, a Bulgarian iconostasis painter from Banat, in Dudeștii Vechi. In 1994, he graduated from the ‘Ștefan Luchian’ School of Arts in Botoșani (Romania). Between 1997 and 2002, he studied at the ‘George Enescu’ University of Arts in Iași, at the Faculty of Design, Decorative and Fine Arts, specialising in ‘Mural Painting’. Since 2002, he has been involved in art, restoration and mural painting in churches. He currently lives and works in the Bulgarian capital of Banat – Dudeștii Vechi – as an independent professional artist. He is the founder of the ‘Homeland at crossroads’ art festival.
