Cvetanka Jovanova Hermes

Color speaks before I do. My paintings live on the border between figuration and abstraction, where female figures dissolve into blossom and symbolic forms hover between the seen and the felt. Color carries everything words cannot: joy, longing, tenderness, memory. I have been painting for more than two decades from Skopje, North Macedonia, and in all that time one conviction has only deepened: beauty is not decoration, it is a form of hope. Every canvas I send into the world is a message of love, an invitation to look at ordinary life and find it luminous.

Master of Fine Art - Faculty of Fine Arts (2014-2017)

2003 - City Museum, Negotino
2004 - Cultural Informative Center (KIC), Skopje
2004 - House of Culture 'Beli Mugri,' Kochani
2008 - Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje
2009 - Slovak Embassy in North Macedonia, Skopje
2011 - Gallery 8, Skopje
2011 - House of the Army, Skopje
2013 - Stobi Winery, Gradsko
2013 - Gallery 8, Skopje
2013 - National Gallery, Tetovo
2013 - Museum of the Macedonian Struggle, Skopje
2015 - MC Gallery, New York
2015 - City Gallery Kotor, Montenegro
2015 - Children from Our Street, Skopje
2017 - Porta Macedonia, Skopje
2017 - Cultural Center, Kriva Palanka
2018 - Cultural Center, Negotino
2019 - Cultural Center, Gevgelija
2023 - Emme Gallery, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
2023 - Cultural Center, Negotino
2026 - Youth Cultural Center, Skopje