Norma De Saint Picman

I'm working as a painter, sculptor and graphic - video intermedia artist and carved out my artistic career in between 1986 and 2003 alternating Ljubljana and Paris. In 1983, I graduated in piano Secondary Music School Ljubljana and in 1986 completed my studies of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts with Prof. Janez Bernik. On a scholarship awarded by the French Government, I attended the Paris Academy of Fine Arts, studying drawing with Prof. Vlado Veličković between 1988 and 1990, became a member of the Maison des artistes in 1991, in 1993 obtained the French citizenship, and in 2003 being granted a diploma by the Fédération Nationale de la culture française, European Art Group.
The years spent in Paris have indelibly marked my artistic pursuit undertaken both in France and Slovenia. Mostly in painting, ceramics and graphics I utilizes expressive figurative art that involves elements touching on surrealism and symbolism, with a pronounced graphic line of figural or decorative compositions in a characteristic postmodernist blending of methods, techniques and materials (photography, collage, glass, ceramics, polyester...), treating people and interpersonal relationships, mother/child, man/woman, through the prism of poetic eroti...