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Smuggler of Happiness
80cm x 80cm (31.5 x 31.5 inch)

From the series that gained multiple international awards.
2020 - 2nd Place Winner, Lollipop Series, IPA Awards, Digitally enhanced
2020 -1st Place Winner Single image, 'The Smuggler of Happiness', The 15th Pollux Awards, Digital manipulation & collage
2020 - Honorable mention, The 15th Pollux Awards, 'The Tree House', Digital manipulation & collage
2020 - Honorable mention , The 15th Pollux Awards, 'Green Tendencies', Digital manipulation & collage
2020 - BBA Gallery Berlin, Photography contest, Longlisted
2020 - PX3 - Honorable mention, Professional, Fine Art, Digitally enhanced
2020 - Nominee, FAPA FineArt Photography Awards, Professional
2019 - Gold medal, ND Awards, Professional fine art
2019 - BIFA AWARDS, Honorable mention, Collage professional
2019 - IPA AWARDS, Honorable mention, Special PRO
2019 - Finalist, Donggang festival
2019 – Bronze winner, FAPA FineArt Photography Awards, Finart, PRO


Inspired by my childhood dreams and further encouraged with my lifelong love for nature and animals, I wanted to create worlds where animals exist as equal characters, as narrators of a modern fairy tale, who share with us the same environment.
By creating peaceful, strange and even humorous situations and twisted animal habitat sceneries which exist somewhere between material world and imagination I want to share my dreamscapes and visions, and offer a visual escape from harsh and often cruel reality.

My works are complex photo collages. I have been collecting photographs for over a decade. It is a long process of combining carefully selected photographs  and illustrated parts, which are then transferred to computer and digitally painted. 



"I am inspired by my surroundings and I see potential in various everyday things and relations, people, nature, architecture, even food. I see them sometimes as fragments of my work. Most of times they stay just that, fragments, and sometimes they become unified into a whole and therefore start to exist as a part of my sceneries.
By using real life photographs and textures I give my work a feel of realism, although the themes are far from being realistic…"

Giclée on Hahnemühle mould-made, museum quality, acid free paper, printed with white border. 
Each print is signed, numbered, and accompanied with a signed Certificate of Authenticity and serial number, using secure holographic identification. Prints are sent unframed.


Also available in other sizes.
Feel free to contact the artist or Saatchi support if you need other size or for any works not seen in gallery.  
Contact curator@saatchiart.com for more information.

All quoted dimensions represent the actual printed image size, not the paper size.
Smuggler of Happiness
80cm x 80cm (31.5 x 31.5 inch)

From the series that gained multiple international awards.
2020 - 2nd Place Winner, Lollipop Series, IPA Awards, Digitally enhanced
2020 -1st Place Winner Single image, 'The Smuggler of Happiness', The 15th Pollux Awards, Digital manipulation & collage
2020 - Honorable mention, The 15th Pollux Awards, 'The Tree House', Digital manipulation & collage
2020 - Honorable mention , The 15th Pollux Awards, 'Green Tendencies', Digital manipulation & collage
2020 - BBA Gallery Berlin, Photography contest, Longlisted
2020 - PX3 - Honorable mention, Professional, Fine Art, Digitally enhanced
2020 - Nominee, FAPA FineArt Photography Awards, Professional
2019 - Gold medal, ND Awards, Professional fine art
2019 - BIFA AWARDS, Honorable mention, Collage professional
2019 - IPA AWARDS, Honorable mention, Special PRO
2019 - Finalist, Donggang festival
2019 – Bronze winner, FAPA FineArt Photography Awards, Finart, PRO


Inspired by my childhood dreams and further encouraged with my lifelong love for nature and animals, I wanted to create worlds where animals exist as equal characters, as narrators of a modern fairy tale, who share with us the same environment.
By creating peaceful, strange and even humorous situations and twisted animal habitat sceneries which exist somewhere between material world and imagination I want to share my dreamscapes and visions, and offer a visual escape from harsh and often cruel reality.

My works are complex photo collages. I have been collecting photographs for over a decade. It is a long process of combining carefully selected photographs  and illustrated parts, which are then transferred to computer and digitally painted. 



"I am inspired by my surroundings and I see potential in various everyday things and relations, people, nature, architecture, even food. I see them sometimes as fragments of my work. Most of times they stay just that, fragments, and sometimes they become unified into a whole and therefore start to exist as a part of my sceneries.
By using real life photographs and textures I give my work a feel of realism, although the themes are far from being realistic…"

Giclée on Hahnemühle mould-made, museum quality, acid free paper, printed with white border. 
Each print is signed, numbered, and accompanied with a signed Certificate of Authenticity and serial number, using secure holographic identification. Prints are sent unframed.


Also available in other sizes.
Feel free to contact the artist or Saatchi support if you need other size or for any works not seen in gallery.  
Contact curator@saatchiart.com for more information.

All quoted dimensions represent the actual printed image size, not the paper size.
Smuggler of Happiness
80cm x 80cm (31.5 x 31.5 inch)

From the series that gained multiple international awards.
2020 - 2nd Place Winner, Lollipop Series, IPA Awards, Digitally enhanced
2020 -1st Place Winner Single image, 'The Smuggler of Happiness', The 15th Pollux Awards, Digital manipulation & collage
2020 - Honorable mention, The 15th Pollux Awards, 'The Tree House', Digital manipulation & collage
2020 - Honorable mention , The 15th Pollux Awards, 'Green Tendencies', Digital manipulation & collage
2020 - BBA Gallery Berlin, Photography contest, Longlisted
2020 - PX3 - Honorable mention, Professional, Fine Art, Digitally enhanced
2020 - Nominee, FAPA FineArt Photography Awards, Professional
2019 - Gold medal, ND Awards, Professional fine art
2019 - BIFA AWARDS, Honorable mention, Collage professional
2019 - IPA AWARDS, Honorable mention, Special PRO
2019 - Finalist, Donggang festival
2019 – Bronze winner, FAPA FineArt Photography Awards, Finart, PRO


Inspired by my childhood dreams and further encouraged with my lifelong love for nature and animals, I wanted to create worlds where animals exist as equal characters, as narrators of a modern fairy tale, who share with us the same environment.
By creating peaceful, strange and even humorous situations and twisted animal habitat sceneries which exist somewhere between material world and imagination I want to share my dreamscapes and visions, and offer a visual escape from harsh and often cruel reality.

My works are complex photo collages. I have been collecting photographs for over a decade. It is a long process of combining carefully selected photographs  and illustrated parts, which are then transferred to computer and digitally painted. 



"I am inspired by my surroundings and I see potential in various everyday things and relations, people, nature, architecture, even food. I see them sometimes as fragments of my work. Most of times they stay just that, fragments, and sometimes they become unified into a whole and therefore start to exist as a part of my sceneries.
By using real life photographs and textures I give my work a feel of realism, although the themes are far from being realistic…"

Giclée on Hahnemühle mould-made, museum quality, acid free paper, printed with white border. 
Each print is signed, numbered, and accompanied with a signed Certificate of Authenticity and serial number, using secure holographic identification. Prints are sent unframed.


Also available in other sizes.
Feel free to contact the artist or Saatchi support if you need other size or for any works not seen in gallery.  
Contact curator@saatchiart.com for more information.

All quoted dimensions represent the actual printed image size, not the paper size.
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Smuggler of Happiness - Limited Edition of 7 Photograph

Nikolina Petolas

Croatia

Photography, Color on Paper

Size: 31.5 W x 31.5 H x 0.1 D in

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Smuggler of Happiness 80cm x 80cm (31.5 x 31.5 inch) From the series that gained multiple international awards. 2020 - 2nd Place Winner, Lollipop Series, IPA Awards, Digitally enhanced 2020 -1st Place Winner Single image, 'The Smuggler of Happiness', The 15th Pollux Awards, Digital manipulation & collage 2020 - Honorable mention, The 15th Pollux Awards, 'The Tree House', Digital manipulation & collage 2020 - Honorable mention , The 15th Pollux Awards, 'Green Tendencies', Digital manipulation & collage 2020 - BBA Gallery Berlin, Photography contest, Longlisted 2020 - PX3 - Honorable mention, Professional, Fine Art, Digitally enhanced 2020 - Nominee, FAPA FineArt Photography Awards, Professional 2019 - Gold medal, ND Awards, Professional fine art 2019 - BIFA AWARDS, Honorable mention, Collage professional 2019 - IPA AWARDS, Honorable mention, Special PRO 2019 - Finalist, Donggang festival 2019 – Bronze winner, FAPA FineArt Photography Awards, Finart, PRO Inspired by my childhood dreams and further encouraged with my lifelong love for nature and animals, I wanted to create worlds where animals exist as equal characters, as narrators of a modern fairy tale, who share with us the same environment. By creating peaceful, strange and even humorous situations and twisted animal habitat sceneries which exist somewhere between material world and imagination I want to share my dreamscapes and visions, and offer a visual escape from harsh and often cruel reality. My works are complex photo collages. I have been collecting photographs for over a decade. It is a long process of combining carefully selected photographs and illustrated parts, which are then transferred to computer and digitally painted. "I am inspired by my surroundings and I see potential in various everyday things and relations, people, nature, architecture, even food. I see them sometimes as fragments of my work. Most of times they stay just that, fragments, and sometimes they become unified into a whole and therefore start to exist as a part of my sceneries. By using real life photographs and textures I give my work a feel of realism, although the themes are far from being realistic…" Giclée on Hahnemühle mould-made, museum quality, acid free paper, printed with white border. Each print is signed, numbered, and accompanied with a signed Certificate of Authenticity and serial number, using secure holographic identification. Prints are sent unframed. Also available in other sizes. Feel free to contact the artist or Saatchi support if you need other size or for any works not seen in gallery.   Contact curator@saatchiart.com for more information. All quoted dimensions represent the actual printed image size, not the paper size.

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Photography:Color on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:9

Size:31.5 W x 31.5 H x 0.1 D in

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Inspired by nature, societal observation, and the world of fantasy, Croatian artist Nikolina Petolas opens the door to secret places where memories, desires, and the subconscious converge, existing somewhere between real life and imagination. Through allegory as a means of expression, she discovers a parallel world woven into dreams and disrupts our perception of reality. In her symbolic visual stories, Nikolina creates a deep narrative with profound compositions in her unique style by blending contemporary digital techniques with photography or through traditional painting. Nikolina's distinctive artistic style has captured the attention of prestigious clients such as Ferragamo and Marriot, with whom she has collaborated closely. Recognized in the field of contemporary surrealism and featured in numerous art books and publications, she also has a notable inclusion in 'Lexikon der Phantastischen Künstler' by Gerhard Habarta. Her signature Blue Pear series has gained worldwide recognition, earning numerous international art awards. Her impressive portfolio has been widely acclaimed and exhibited in galleries and museums across Europe, the United States, and Asia.

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