Rossitza Djananova is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she studied painting under Andrei Daniel. As a student, Ms. Djananova had multifaceted interests, including the depiction of dance and theater in painting as well as the representation of saints in the austere yet magnificent tradition of Byzantium. In the United States, Ms. Djananova reconnected with her Orthodox heritage and, inspired by the ineffable visions of seers like Andrei Rublyov and Theophan the Greek, took a master class in icon painting with famed iconographer and teacher Vladislav Andrejev. Pursuing the same quest to find an artistic form which reflected spiritual reality, Ms. Djananova later studied mosaic with Carmelo Fianaca from Sicily.

Ms. Djananova has created a few large mosaics that are suitable for churches, refectories, and large halls. Those mosaics would typically be displayed in their own cases or affixed to the walls. In addition, Ms. Djananova has a few completed icons on wood panels, painted in strict adherence to the iconography canon.

Ms. Djananova’s non-religious works mostly focus on the beauty of nature and of the human form in motion.