…Without much noise, consistent, thorough and serious rather than ostentatious, and of course undoubted master of the fine art material and the space structuring of the painting, Ivan Velchev introduces to us an art which is fascinating, profound, emotional and modern in style and message; the kind of art created by an author, who lives with the hopes, illusions and worries of his time and whose thoughts and feelings resound in his heart. As a creator he has made incertitude both the criterion and the life source for his works where he excels in the creative power of the fine art matter. For a serious artist like him, this definitely is a pledge for a genuine artistic attitude…
Academician Svetlin Russev

…I think it is precisely the painting which is the nucleus that concentrates in itself the most intimate, the most dearly cherished experiences of the artist in his contact with the fine art. Although the particular impulse to create one or other painting may come along different ways; through direct impressions, through memories, or by way of his imagination – in any of the cases a painting of Ivan Velchev is an independent pictorial world with its own laws and logic. In it the delicate and tender emotion is percolated through the filter of the thorough,penetrating and continuous consideration of the artistic task, the building of the form, the wanted harmony of colour, the special proportions and of the compositional organization…
Professor Chavdar Popov

Ivan Velchev is of the artists, whose audience is constant and demanding in its loyalty. His art is conceptual; it designates the contemporary world as a system of basic and metaphorical laws. Perhaps this is why it is not the author’s subjectivity, but an objectivity, which has been transformed by the poetry of the picture, that is idiosyncratic of his art. Compositions like ‘Pyramid’, ‘Incident’, ‘Night and Day’, etc. present both sophisticated art and a territory where the artist is in search of the signs for existence and of the delicate balance between the persons and the environment of space and matter.
Dimitar Grozdanov

The Haiku project comprises four compositions of three small drawings each, created on paper with ink, watercolor, monotype, collage. Inspired by particular emotional moods, free of verbose explanations.

The Windows Reinstallation project comprises three compositions of six separate drawings each, set in wooden window frames. They present a diversity of pattern, colour and subject, arranged in a specific way making it possible to rearrange/reinstall. The separate elements are made in the technique of collage, mainly paper, print, photo, textile, etc.

Ivan Velchev shows interest and tries his hand in various art genres. In the beginning he works as a scenery artist in the theatre. In the 70-ies and 80-ies he is an assistant director in the opera. As a result of this passion of his, he manages to complete several scenography projects of his in the theatre and the opera. Meanwhile he works in the fields of poster and graphic design.