Her father, Christo Buchvarov was a builder who succumbed at a relatively young age to severe Parkinson's disease, brought on according to family tradition by business failure caused by his partner's embezzlement, which left him a partial invalid.
The seascapes often included the local fishermen with their boats and nets, an officially 'appropriate' subject, but within a landscape that tended towards a minimal abstraction.
As the communist regime drew to a close Maslarova, now a widow, found conditions in Bulgaria to be increasingly difficult and in 1988 moved to the UK.
Despite steady sales of her paintings and a solo show the Charlotte Lampard gallery in London she was unable to settle and, following the fall of the Zhivkov regime, returned to Bulgaria in 1992, where she lived until her death in 2006.
Surprisingly for someone trained in a classical discipline, her later portraits do little to enhance her reputation, which must depend upon her seascapes and some of her later flower paintings.