The One And Only Painting

Born in 1965, in Skopje, North Macedonia. She graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje in 1988, with professor Dimitar Kondovski and professor Rodoljub Anastasov. Member of the Association of Artists of Macedonia since 1988. 1988-1997 stayed and worked in Boston, USA. Simonida Filipova Kitanovska has been professional artist all her life. Right after graduation her work was featured at the National Art Gallery as she was recognize as one of the leading artists in the country. Her thirty year career was marked by numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada and U.S.A. Mrs. Filipova Kitanovska was awarded in many occasions for her artistic excellence. In 1991-1997 she lived in U.S.A. and exhibited at Boston and Agora Gallery in Soho, New York City. As a painter and visual artist she expressed herself in different media - oil, acrylic, installation, combined techniques and video. However, last nine years her work is almost exclusively dedicated to exploration of watercolor. Her very first watercolor paintings early on in her career earned her a special prize at prestigious national competition. Years later she found that this technique that is fast drying, often full with unpredictability yet precise and unmerciful to mistakes or corrections, match her own character, explosive expression and gesture, drawing using color and unquenched thirst for realizing ideas to the inviting white surface instantly.