Simona Ruscheva graduated Fine Art Painting in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. She is currently living and working in London, UK. Simona had her first UK solo show “Transitions” in London, 2022 and my first international solo show “The source” at Keep Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, USA in 2021. She has participated in various international group shows and across London, including Royal Institute of British Artists Annual exhibition, where her work was Highly Commended by the De Laszlo Foundation, and Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition. Simona was shortlisted for Kate Bryan art prize in July 2021 and for Artrooms Awards in 2019 and was long listed in Jacksons Painting Prize 2023 and Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize 2022 in the Portraiture category. She is a member of Contemporary British Portrait Painters. Her works are part of the global art collection of Standard Chartered Bank.