"After numerous experiments, in 1985 I finally achieved an innovative and unique technique through which I found a way to make colours in the intaglio (engraving) process." "All my wine labels are also done using this technique. My first series of prints after the Old Dutch Masters was created with this technique, and the works were acquired by the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow and the National Art Gallery, Sofia." "In 1995 I was offered to make one of the Queen of Clubs (Semillon) labels for Peter Lehmann Wines, which marked the beginning of a number of commissions for wine labels that I made over several years. The Queen of Clubs label used on the Semillon wine for Peter Lehmann has now become quite famous, with a controversy about its export to the US well documented on the internet by Peter May. Other labels included Grenache for Peter Lehmann Wines and a label for Brangayne (whose story is on the Brangayne site). The Brangayne label shows the preparation of the Drink of Love; it was used in different designs for various wines." "A series of four labels after Irish legends for Setanta Wines was my last project in this area. I enjoyed researching Irish mythology very much, but I must admit that it was very difficult to create an image reflecting the time, since all that is left from this period are crude rock drawings, which are not always very clear. A lot of imagination was needed to create a heroic and fearful image of Setanta - a hero from the Irish legends - while preserving, at the same time, the beauty of the good deeds and the necessity of lightness in the images, so that people would wish to try the wines and not be scared away by a ferocious-looking Setanta!" Annael http://www.annael.com/biography.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annael :::::::::::::: Music: "The Road to Nishapur " (Rubáiyát) - Milagro Acustico. Music: Bob Salmieri, Voice: Maryam Borhani. "Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one." Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishapur (c.1048-c.1123)