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Bella's work experience:
Bella is a Vienna-based professional interdisciplinary visual artist & art gallery owner. Bella also works worldwide as an artist and art instructor.
Her focus is mainly on canvas painting, human transformations through body painting, photography, and video. They are often connected and presented in a melting pot of all these elements through augmented reality. It is about a total work of art and a meeting point of classical art and modern digital technology.
Another essential part of her work is commission illustrations, murals, performances, installations. Furthermore, she has experience with stage design, stage costumes, and interior design.
Bella has spent more than 17 years creating art commissions for events & corporate clients around the world. She also took part in many international exhibitions.
Art education:
1/2010 Diploma, master degree in painting
2003-2010 Study of painting at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Prof. Wolfgang Herzig, Prof. Johanna Kandl, Prof. Heribert Just)
2002-2003 Study of graphic arts and printmaking techniques at the National Academy of Fine Arts , Sofia, Bulgaria
2001-2002 Art course in drawing after the old masters (Prof. Katja Kostova and Prof. Peter Chuklev)
April 2000 Art exchange, City of Bath College, England
1996-2001 Ilia Petrov National High School of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
1995-1996 Fine arts courses for drawing, painting, and composition (Prof. Ganovski and Reggio)
Further training:
November 2020-January 2021, Agile Leadership Certification by MDI-Training, Vienna, Austria
December 2019, PCM Level 2 structural model workshop by trainer Uwe Reiner-Kolouch
2018-2019: One year training as Profiler PScn (human behaviour analyses)
Bella has been 27 times a judge at bodypainting competitions, including judging the World Bodypainting Festival since 2008. She was a world champion in bodypainting herself in 2006, and has another 16 art awards.
Personal Information
Bella is plant-based since her childhood, vegan; she loves nature, science, books, museums, sport, old cultures and has a deep connection with different Asian philosophy traditions and countries. She is stubborn and learns everything, which can help her path, including investing and technical & fundamental analyses.
Bella also teaches painting, drawing, color theory, design & composition, bodypainting, body art history, and business & mindset for an artist.
She is writing a book about the ritual body art history and initiation rituals, which took more than 15 years of research.
Awards
She was the world champion in bodypainting in 2006, and has another 16 art awards.
Bella is open for:
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Does the mentoring program cost anything?Nope - but you do have to be an inner circle member at the female factor. The membership starts at 1 € a day. For more info visit our membership page.
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Can I apply for more than one mentor?Yes, you can apply for up to three mentors. Please note, every mentor requires a personalized motivation letter.
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I'm having trouble deciding who to apply for, how do you pick a good mentor?That all depends on your career goals for the upcoming months- so ask yourself where do you want to be in half a year or year from now. Do you want to expand your company in a certain field? Start your own company? Or side business? Do you want to gain a particular skill set? Or maybe you want to move up within your corporation? Choosing a good mentor FOR YOU depends on a lot of things. But we’ve seen that a good mentor mentee relationship and successful outcomes mainly depends on good chemistry aka. you two get along and that the person can give you relevant advice and know-how that will help to excel in YOUR personal career. So ask yourself: “Will I vibe well with this person?” “How is their career and experience relevant to mine?” “How will it help me get to where I want to be in a certain period of time?” "How could my mentor actually benefit from my knowhow and skillset?"
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How long is the mentoring program?The official mentoring period is for half a year. The current mentoring batch is running until December 2024. The fall batch will have applications open in October, and the batch itself will run from November 22, 2024 through to May 2025. However, some of the mentors will still be happy to support you after that period or even become friends.
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