The painting “Forest” by Nikolay Raynov is the highlight of the month of January in Djurkovi Gallery.
…I had decided to become a monk but got married; I loved people but they came to hate me; my enemies are those to whom I have done only good; I am 30, but I look like an old man; I thought that my vocation was reading but I was forced to take up writing. I owe my deepest gratitude to the Seminary which taught me to keep silent, meditate and look for the superior in man… I am neither a writer, nor an artist, and cannot say I have come under anybody’s influence. If at a certain point I learn how to write and paint properly, I shall have to thank the East and antiquity.
Nikolay Raynov, „A few words about me“
„Zhatva“ Almanac, 1919