2012-196 Painting

I was born in 1932 in part of Yugoslavia, which is now Croatia, where I received my school and university education. I also attended university in Australia. I have been living in Australia from 1959, at first residing in Sydney until 1970, and in Melbourne since then. While living in Sydney I continued painting, holding two one man exhibitions. However, due to family reasons, as well as business commitments, when I moved to Melbourne, I stopped painting for some twenty years. At the end of 1990 I took early retirement and started to paint full time. I held number of exhibitions, the last two being in New York, Andre Zarre Gallery, and in Melbourne, Cambridge Studio Gallery. The Artist Statement. I would describe my work as abstract expressionist, urging the viewer to seek the beauty of art in the harshness of the Australian Landscape affected by the open cut mining over the recent times. My view is that even in the irreparable damages to the pristine qualities of the environment, we should try to discover the strange beauty and intrigue in these environmental appearances