Hidden Sea Painting

Ivan Car is a professional painter from Croatia, born in 1990. He lives in the small Mediterranean village of Malinska on the Island of Krk, Croatia where he paints, photographs and writes poetry. He is inspired by Christian faith, psychology and philosophy from around the world. As a young adult he suffered from a mental illness from which he was healed through Christian meditation, prayer and art. In 2015. he felt calling to became a painter in which he was interested since high school. He graduate at Arthouse - college of visual arts in Ljubljana in 2021 on the theme of "Spiritual in abstract painting" He works in the tradition of lyrical abstraction and abstract expressionism. He is also author of several exhibitions presenting local artists as well as young artists from Croatia.