Ivanichka Paneva was born in 1946 in Veliko Turnovo. In 1968 she graduated Veliko Turnovo University "St. St. Ciril and Methodius", speciality - Pictorial arts and in 1979 was accepted as a member of the Bulgarian Artists' Union.   Ivanichka Paneva's participations in international "plain arts" and formal exhibitions of Bulgarian Art abroad are as follows:   1974    Tchhove, Poland - plain air  1977    Krakov, Poland - exhibition   1978    Strazitsa, Bulgaria - plain air  1980    Brussels, Belgium  1980    England - exhibition  1981    Poltava, Russia  1981    Nish, Yugoslavia  1987    Krasnodar, Russia - plain air  15 one-shows in Bulgaria

1985    first prize of Common Art Exhibition of
           teachers
1988    second prize of the competition "Veliko
           Turnovo's landscape"
1998    Golden medal in recognition of the display
           of oilpainting - landscape painting of East - 
           West Euro Intellect Exhibition

Ivanichka Paneva's works can be found in The National Art Gallery and almost every regional gallery in Bulgaria, and lots of private collections in Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, France, USA, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden.