Nikolina Car Jergović

Born in Zagreb, Croatia (1985.)

My creative process usually starts with a loose concept, an idea witch is transforming as I go with the flow.
It´s all about process. I love working in many layers, adding and removing them until it comes to the point that says"that´s it". Building a painting, looking at how it evolves brings in me wide palette of emotions, from inner struggle to joy and extasy.
It is a process of not only putting a color onto canvas but also an introspection and exploration. As the painting grows, the connection and communication establishes between me and the image, and finally with inner self witch painting reflects.
What I like the most about abstracts is unpredictability and challenge. You never know what´s going to emerge, no matter how firm is the concept. I let the painting guide me
as a tool to express myself. Possibilities are endless.

I draw inspiration from nature, it´s shapes and forms, the way it feels, changes, transforms itself.
In my paintings I am not trying to reproduce it, but rather bring an emotional reflection, a feeling or echo of a subject. Nature is the ultimate abstract artist!

The artworks are done mainly with acrylics, sometimes combined with other media, like pastels, char...

2013. Received MA degree at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, Croatia

2003. Graduated from the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, Croatia

2021.
Juried group exhibition "Život umjetnika", Europski dom, Zagreb, Croatia
2020.
Online group exhibition "Prema novom svjetlu" in HDLU Zagreb organization
2020.
Virtual solo exhibition "Nature in abstraction", Art gallery 514, Slovenia
2020.
Virtual Art & Photography exhibition "Artists of the world", Tall Sequoia gallery, Toronto, Canada
2018.
Solo exibition "Metakrajolici", gallery space at Pouvg, Velika Gorica, Croatia
2016.-2020.
Ulikumvg annual group exhibition, gallery space at Pouvg, Velika Gorica, Croatia
2013.
Solo exhibition "Otisci duše", Galženica library, Velika Gorica, Croatia
2012.
Group exhibition PULP3&Roban, gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia