The young and with no doubt very tal­ent­ed Bul­gar­i­an art­ist Ida Ivan­ka Kubler secured her name among the best in the art scene in the UK with yet anoth­er suc­cess­ful exhi­bi­tion. "The birth of an idea" is a solo show by Ivan­ka, which takes place at the West­bourne Grove Church in Not­ting Hill, Lon­don and clos­es on 28 May. Three large can­vas works from the series have already been sold and the exhi­bi­tion has been received with crit­i­cal praise from vis­it­ors. The main mate­ri­al in the "The birth of an idea" series are paint­ed sculp­tured silk worm cocoons. The art­ist waits until the silk moths leave their cocoons in order to lay their eggs. The cocoons are then paint­ed, manip­u­lat­ed and posi­tioned. And in doing so the art­ist chan­ges their ini­tial image of silk cocoons and allows their "pass­ing" to anoth­er iden­ti­ty. The bright paint col­our defines a strong pres­ence and the shape of the immense num­ber of ele­ments appeal to the imag­i­nary touch. The result­ing "Birth of an idea" pic­tures are at once nur­tur­ing, tran­scend­ing and mov­ing. Ida's art­work "The birth of an idea" was includ­ed in "Pla­ce­bos for Art", a project under­tak­en by the Beh­ring Insti­tute for Med­i­cal Research and was judged to have pos­i­tive influ­ence on pub­lic health.

Ida, Ivan­ka Kubler was born in 1978 in Bul­gar­ia and moved in 1997 to Ger­ma­ny and then again to Lon­don in 2008. She has had stu­di­os in Bul­gar­ia, Ger­ma­ny, France and USA. Fur­ther Ida has attend­ed the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Arts, Sofia, Bul­gar­ia, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Arts, Biel­e­feld, Ger­ma­ny and the Chel­sea Col­lege of Art and Design, Lon­don, UK. Pre­vi­ous­ly Ivan­ka has exhib­it­ed at the Cana­ry Wharf Gal­ler­ies, Try­ci­cle Gal­lery, the Gal­lery of Wil­les­den Green in Lon­don and the Cae­lum Gal­lery in New York. Col­lect­ors of her work are based in Ger­ma­ny, the Neth­er­lands, Bul­gar­ia, UK, Spain, France and USA.