Stanislav Pamukchiev has put together a new series of works, "Changing Season", made specially for the "Prolet" gallery in Burgas.

The paintings mix abstract landscapes and figures, but nature here is just a starting point, not the goal. The landscapes are heavily reworked and abstracted. Water, sky, wind, mist and clouds all dissolve into soft light, layers of color and spaces that feel almost weightless.

Two self-portraits sit at the heart of the show. The human figures in this near-bodiless world capture the artist's emotional states while making the work, and the piece "In the Studio" carries the drama and intensity of creating art.

The works carry titles like "Dry Season", "Cold Snap", "Warm Wind", "Blue Evening", "A Quiet Breeze", "Red Cloud", "On the Water" and "Shadow of a Cloud".

In these paintings, the outlines of water, sky, wind, shores, clouds and rain melt away, leaving what's been called "views of the soul" — nature's moods stand in as a metaphor for emotional, mental and spiritual shifts. Pamukchiev looks at how light turns to dark, solid to see-through, the nameable to the unnameable, the bounded to the boundless. The landscape stops being a real place and becomes an inner space instead — shifting, undefined, sometimes just dreamed of.

Light, texture, color and brushwork build up and fade back, the way seasons and human moods change, and that's where the sense of motion comes from — motion that never settles into a final shape. The painting doesn't tell the story of the landscape; it uses the landscape as a language for things that are hard to put into words.

The "Prolet" gallery is at 32 Lermontov Street, and "Changing Season" stays open to visitors until 23 October 2026.