BANANA TREE, 90 X 120 CM, 1998 Painting

is a Slovenian-born, Southeast Asia based international emerging artist, known for her large colorful photographs and paintings painted with bright colors, vivid atmospheres of gardens with lush vegetation and bright light. Color is the main concern in her painting, exploring its emotional and expressive qualities. She is known as colorist with her roots in European expressionism. She earned her M.F.A. in Painting from Academie Minerva in Groningen, The Netherlands in 1995. In the first part of her career she lived and worked in Florence, Venice, Paris, Morocco, California and Slovenia. In the last 13 years she has been very much attracted by explosive energy of the South-East Asia. Followed by stays in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bali, Indonesia, Kula Lumpur, Malaysia, Bokeo and Vientiane, Laos and Chiang Mai, Koh Phangan Island and Bangkok, Thailand. She recently had a solo exhibition at La Fenice Art Gallery in Hong Kong. Her other important exhibitions took place at: BACC Bangkok Arts & Culture Center in the month of August 2017, Jamjuree Art Gallery in Bangkok, an Art Museum of Chulalongkorn University in 2014, at CMU Art Museum in Chaing Mai in 2013, at The Substation Art Center in Singapore in 2012, UCSI University Kuala Lumpur in 2011.