Anton Rakun

Residing in Slovenia (born 1955) and considered himself as a self-taught artist despite taking academic artists lessons as well in the start of his professional carrier. Inevitable fact is that art talent is a family tradition while his relative Fran Tratnik was a famous Slovenian impressionistic artist with academic degree and European reputation.
Anton started as full time job artist in early nineties and since then hundreds of his paintings were created and sold. Regardless all the intensive years in the artistic world, he still is more than passionate and creates daily.
Motifs are sourced from so adored local community, environment, family relations and personal life anecdotes. Fully dedicated to each piece of art that he works on so always leaving a piece of himself. As a self-taught artist has established his own style with unique features, also so colorful paint expressions that always are in the move and reflect endless stories. In fact, his artworks live constantly and share their main message no matter the era they will be exposed to.
Abstract style on canvas is the one that encourages and motivates him for the future search of undiscovered. Anton believes that art is for the people who just fundamentally love it fro...