Blind Bulgarian artist finds a way to keep painting

FILE PHOTO: Artist Stamen Karamfilov gestures at his studio in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov/File PhotoPLOVDIV, Bulgaria: Stamen Karamfilov bends low over a canvas, adding the finishing touches to a woodland landscape: no mean feat considering the Bulgarian artist is almost totally blind.

"Great experience and intuition - that's the secret," said the 76-year-old, grinning in the middle of his studio in the southern city of Plovdiv, surrounded by vibrant treescapes and abstracts. "I only paint on black canvases, because I can recognise the warm colours - orange, red, light green ... I go out when it's bright and sunny, because I can 'see' the shadows. When it's dark and grey, I can't."In the early stages, he stands a few centimetres away from the canvas and breaks down the image in his head into small squares.

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