Left Brain Artists
Irresistible attraction Curiously, most of us are cat lovers. Animal lovers, rather. Living with cats, it is impossible not to rejoice in their elegance, posture, curiosity, playfulness, hunting instincts. Cats, often depicted in art pieces, as a sole subject, as a companion of people, women (revisit here some of woman/cat companion paintings), participants in domestic […]
Monoprints of original drawings Sometimes, triggered by an impulse or a detail on an emerging work, I get overwhelmed with an urge to go back to my old paintings or sketches – there must be some kind of a continuity of thought, a thread linking past and present despite the evolution of the artistic style or […]
Drawings, zentangle Whatever you may have expected, this gallery show is exactly what the title says. Doodles, spontaneous, organic, bringing out intricate and deeply ingrained connections with the natural world, intertwined, mysterious, where everything is linked and interdependent. Creatures emerging discretely from the growth of twines and mushrooms, tangles of grass and twigs – creatures […]
Gel plate image transfer Things are not always as we see them. Every image has layers – surface, underneath-background, and invisible. Gel plate image transfers allow us to rearrange these layers into something utterly unexpected. The invisible emerges, secrets of the image revealed. A transformation. We do not fully control this transformation – we are just […]
Botanical prints Planting in Canada is ‘scheduled’ for Victoria Day – second half of May. Anything planted before that ‘turn of the season’ is in danger! Just a week before the ‘right planting date’, I rushed to cover my bougainvillea, recently moved from the winter indoors to the patio, to protect it from a sudden […]
A monoprint assembly Can a monochromatic ‘pallete’ replace the expressive and emotional impacts of colored paintings? I automatically reach for paint tubes, rarely thinking of ‘other ways’, my inner impulse. Yet, I stand in owe before Natasha’s and Hung’s black and white photos, moved, drawn in, mesmerized… I am who I am, have to listen […]
Gel plate image prints Image transfers using gel plate lead to their utter transformation. And the fascination of one world changing into another, unpredictably. Hunt for images in glossy magazines is mostly driven by their contemporary appeal, stereotypes enforced by advertising, fashion, design. Gel plate turns them into essentially monochromatic prints, faded, specled, grainy, aged, […]
Rice paper monotype prints Line in art comprises one of the seven most known elements (the other six being form, shape, value, color, texture, and space). These are formal art tools that are applied to create a visual art composition and span across all fine arts, photography, architecture… In a very simple classification, lines (in […]
Jasmine Kukic – Collage Artist Minka is close to heart – to me and now to all of us. A compatriot and friend who lived and worked in Ottawa as professional artist for over 20 years before moving back to Belgrade. Jasminka is a collage artist. She is also a solemate…in our shared interests in […]
Polymer clay jewelry etc. Buried under meters of snow, we hope for spring. On this 8th of March, an International Women’s Day, back home, flower bouquets were gifted, first hyacinths, spring arrival palpable; women were celebrated together with spring. In contrast, all white and inward here…not many even remember why this day is celebrated in […]
Left Brain Artists