My Childhood Painting

Lona Verlich is a new artist name of painter, graphic artist and illustratior Polona Kunaver Ličen, who was born in Ljubljana, Slovenija in 1975. She studied visual communications at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, graduating in 2000 with the degree thesis on Theatre Poster. In the same year she matriculated into the Masters’ program of illustration and graphic arts and completed her first year in Helsinki, Finland. In 2005 she completed her Masters’ degree in illustrated authorial children’s books at the Department of Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. In 2006 she was awarded the first prize at an authorial book contest in Austria for her illustrated book entitled Old Man Bertold’s Secret. In 2009 she received the highest grant for two of her books and in 2012 she received a work grant for her recent book for children The Sign of Seagulls. The artist is a member of Fine Artists’ Association of North Primorsko Region. Since 2003 Lona and her husband have been running the gallery and Centre of Arts and Design Licna Hisa in Ajdovscina. She lives and works in Slovenija.