"The central characteristic of Tzarev’s art is the generosity of its response to new experiences, its hunger for visual stimulation, its glorious colour, and its accessibility. Her paintings evidently pour out of her in an almost continuous stream. But they are not, simply, even the numerous flower-paintings, a response to what she encounters in the external world. They are about what she discovers, on each occasion, within herself…"

"…Ana Tzarev is a dynamic and visionary painter because she has a constant desire to get it all done, to recreate what she encounters in her own visual language. Contemporary painters have rather lost this gift, which was possessed in full measure by the Post-Impressionists and early Modernists. Her work reverts in spirit to an earlier and more heroic time."

Edward Lucie Smith
Art Historian and Critic
April 2008

"Ana Tzarev’s relationship with Hawaii began in 1989. Since then she has returned many times, fascinated by the island group’s exuberant local flora and rich cultural traditions. The passion she feels for the place and for Hawaii’s legendary hospitality comes across powerfully in her many vibrant studies of its flowers, costumes, customs and rhythmic hula dancing."

Belinda Thomson
Art Historian
2010

"Ana Tzarev’s artwork does feel like a branch that swished in a flash before your eyes. Viewers witness a spectacular demonstration of motion, color, shape and texture and perfume that leaves no spectator indifferent, making them either recoil in fear or rush forward with wonderment."

"Ana Tzarev has learned how to capture the depictive motif very quickly. She has developed a powerful gestural style with an energy not unlike that of the post-impressionist era: an open colour, a three-dimensional brush stroke – or rather, a fiery haze of strokes drifting optically in space; a triumph of the de-reflective approach, driven towards capturing and mastering nature's signals."

"Her art possesses a kind of viscous, encasing mobility. In our time, a contemporary artist lives from project to project, and the effect of his work is often determined by his ability or inability to keep up with the time. Ana Tzarev not only controls, in the most archaic way, the flow of her own time — she involves her viewer in the flow."