"Interior of The Mind: Lost City Blues 01" Painting

My work is for those who curate their space like a story — layered with meaning and intention.

I paint presence more than likeness, emotion more than narrative. My pieces live between abstraction and figuration, where layered colour builds depth, texture carries memory, and form meets feeling. In a world that demands we shout to be seen, my work is my answer: quiet, nuanced.

They’re not designed to match a sofa — though if they do, I won’t hold it against you. They’re meant to start a conversation, stir a memory, or quietly shift the way a room feels.

When people connect with my work, it’s rarely because it looks like them, but because it feels like something they’ve known, something they’ve been missing or waiting to find. The abstraction leaves room for that, holding something bigger, something we can all step into and interpret through the prism of our own experience.

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Artist bio
Sudbina embarks on her artistic practice with three main stages in mind, for the first layer she considers a traditional figurative representation of reality, to set the colour scheme and composition, providing a context which she refers to as the Ego. Occasionally she begins with pure abstraction starting from the gestural base, allowing the canvas to guide her into discovering the composition. The second layer is Sudbina’s Id, an intuitive state of concentration in which her raw, gestural mark making is dictated by her subconscious. The third stage, the SuperEgo, is about finding compositional balance through non-action and negative action, standing back to analyse and then jumping forward to undo, scrape or cover up parts of the painting.

In essence, Sudbina’s point of departure is a debate between choice and chance. Her hands choose to control her chosen mediums, acrylic and ink using small found objects, a process which is juxtaposed by the chance involved in gestural mark making, such as the independent behaviour of materials, a splash of ink or the unpredictability of mixing colour. In building a composition, Sudbina finds herself in a meditative state, guided by her subconscious thoughts, memories and experiences, each painting becoming its own spiritual journey.

For several years, Sudbina’s worked closely with the world’s leading Architects and Interior Designers.