Georgi N. Penkov was born in the town of Bourgas, Bulgaria in 1955. He has had twenty-five one-man exhibitions. Some of his paintings belong to collectors from England, from Austria, from Germany, from Denmark, from Belgium, from the USA, from Japan, from Sri Lanka, from Hungary, etc. He is author of the volumes of poetry Strangers and Sorrowful Palette. He lives and works in Bourgas.