On the Moor Painting

Pavle Ščurk, with his strong and quick strokes and energetic yet sensual colour palette, creates a style that is recognisable to the public. He plays with light and colour, as well as with their layers. In some places, these layers are thick and tactile, in others airy and soft. The motifs always strike a balance between dynamism and calm. He transfers his visions and feelings onto the canvas as an empathetic observer. Pavle masters watercolour, acrylic and oil techniques but does not stop there. He satisfies his desire for more by experimenting techniques and interpretation of motifs. He demonstrates his painterly sovereignty above all by deliberately dismantling the realistic starting point and thus entering the field of abstraction, which still bears the essential elements of identification. He expresses his fresh insights into painting through his own poetics of experience and his exploration of individual artistic techniques, which have succeeded in placing Pavle on the pedestal of landscape art. He plays a prominent role as a painter of colourfully varied creations, full of soft colour gradients and subtle dialogues. His work never lacks decisiveness and a vehement gesture that captures a confessional essence. In his rich oeuvre, in which he has tried his hand at all painting techniques, he has become stylistically recognisable, as evidenced by the numerous awards and prizes he has received along his painting career. Pavle Ščurk has long since ceased to be just one of the "creative seekers", but an affirmed painter, with a character and an identity. His artistic creativity is admired by the amateur public and appreciated by professional circles. He is obsessed with experimentation.