Assen Ignatov
Date and place of birth: 04.06.1968, Knezha
Education: Higher
Professional experience: Zoologist at the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, ecotourism group leader, artist and wildlife photographer.
Exhibitions:
1990 Vitosha Gallery,
1991 Bulgarian Philatelists Club and Faculty of Biology, Sofia University, 1997 Intercommerce Gallery,
2002 and 2003, December, private exhibition for diplomats,
2011 and 2012 exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia,
2017 and 2018 SAFSI
Awards: 2002 – Birdwatch Artist of the Year 2002, one of the 12 finalists, the drawing is on a calendar for 2003, July
Illustrated works:
2000 Poisonous Plants and Poisonings with Them,
2000 The Trees and Shrubs of Vitosha Nature Park, participation with 3 drawings,
2002 Mammals of the Rhodope Mountains, black and white drawings,
2003 A Short Definition of the Animals and Plants Included in the Washington Monument CITIES convention, co-author
2003 Owls in Bulgaria,
2005 Birds of the Burgas Wetlands,
2007 Atlas of Breeding Birds in Bulgaria, co-illustrator
2008 BRADT Guide to Bulgaria, sketch drawings,
2010 Red Book of Bultaria, insects and invertebrates and co-illustrator of some of the birds, Book 5 of the BSPB series – The Life of Vultures
2011 Advances in Heteroptera Research, sketch drawings
2014 Angler's Handbook and Freshwater Angler's Handbook and Fish Book of the Persina Nature Park,
BSPB Posters 1990, Protected Birds 1993 MEW
Calendars 1995 (Neftochim Burgas), 1999 (MZG), BSPB 2002 and 2003.
Illustrated scientific articles:
A New Species of Cyanus (Asteraceae, Centaureinae) from Southeastern Bulgaria, Volume 19, Number 4, 2009, NOVON
A new annual Bupleurum (Apiaceae) species from Northeastern Bulgaria and Romanian Dobrogea, PHYTOLOGIA BALCANICA 16 (1): 65 – 74 Sofia,
Cardamine × rhodopaea (Brassicaceae), a triploid hybrid from the West Rhodope Mts: Morphology, distribution, relationships and origin described in PHYTOLOGIA BALCANICA 19 (3): 323 – 338, Sofia, 2013,
Reconstruction of the fossil crake Porzana botunensis Boev, 2015 described in Acta zoologica bulgarica 67 (2) • Sofia • June • 2015
Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus: a new species to the Bulgarian avifauna described in Acrocephalus 36 (164/165): 79–82 2015 10.1515/acro-2015-0007
Favorite illustrator: Lars Jonsson, Peter Partingnon, the Lewingon brothers, Dan Powel, Juan Varela..
Favorite illustrated book? The first one I came across – a catalogue of drawings by Lars Jonson, as well as his definition of the birds of Europe.
Which book do you dream of illustrating? Every illustration is a challenge, everything related to wildlife.
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