Vania is an immigrant artist originating from Bulgaria, Europe. At a very early age she began to study art in private art studio while she was playing her piano as well. In 1979 at age of 14 she was selected as a top student in the admission competition at the art school “Tcanko Lavrenov”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria and completed her five years study in 1984. Between 1985-1991 during the time of the revolution in Eastern Europe she completed her Master degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria specializing in Illustration and design of Books and shortly after that emigrated in Malta and worked there as an illustrator for a magazine . She was the first artist in the family considering that her family included three professional medical doctors.