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1999 Secondary School for Design and Photography in Ljubljana - Industrial Design
2003 Finished studies in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia 2006 Completed Master’s Degree in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia since 2000 Exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions home and abroad 2008 - 2021 Managed Private Art School Odpikedoslike 2021 Created Hidden Sanctuary Art and Art Material Lab© ❤ |
1999 Zaključila izobraževanje na Srednji šoli za oblikovanje in fotografijo v Ljubljani, smer industrijsko oblikovanje
2003 Zaključila študij slikarstva na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Ljubljani 2006 Zaključila magistrski študij slikarstva na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Ljubljani od leta 2000 razstavljala samostojno in skupinsko doma in v tujini 2008 - 2021 Vodila zasebno slikarsko šolo Odpikedoslike 2021 Ustvarila Hidden Sanctuary Art in Art Material Lab© |
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ARTIST STATEMENT
With my works I wish to move, inspire and point to that inner Peace that is always present, always there ... if only we silence the mind and listen ... When I paint, I capture my knowing about entanglement of Nature and Human, how everything, there Is, is connected. Each canvas is a journey into another adventure: and that is the main core of the reason why I love to paint. Everything is possible, canvas is a place of endless freedom. Here I remember - each time all over again -TO PLAY. |
IZJAVA UMETNICE
S svojimi deli želim ganiti, navdihniti in usmeriti k tistemu notranjemu Miru, ki je vedno prisoten, vedno tu ... če le utišamo hrup uma in prisluhnemo temu, kar je pod njim ... Ko slikam, beležim svoje Vedenje o prepletenosti Narave in Človeka, medsebojni povezanosti vsega, kar je. Vsako platno je potovanje v novo pustolovščino. In prav tu tiči bistvo tega, zakaj tako rada slikam: vse je mogoče, platno je prostor brezmejne svobode. Tu se vsakič znova spomnim - IGRATI SE. |
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A LITTLE MORE PERSONAL : )
Yes, this slightly strange staring person on the photo above is me. It was taken 13 years ago by my husband, so a few things changed. : ) But I really love this image because of the lush turquoise color of the Soča river. We and our kids live in a small village near Kranj, small city in Slovenia (Europe). We are surrounded by big hills, mountains and woods. And yes, there's also a dog. And two cats, that are officialy ours but somehow prefer to live with our neighbours (that are accidentaly my parents). I know what you're thinking. But let me tell you - it's not us, it's the dog. Ever since I remember I knew I wanted to make art in my life. There was this unexplained knowing that that is something I will be doing professionally. After my MA in Fine Arts I opened my private art school. And it all went very well (for some reason that even surprised me). But somehow - I never had time to paint "for myself". Taking care of family, lots of work, juggling priorities ... ... This new era changed things for me. It's now or never, I said to myself. ... Looking back I realize how I mistakenly believed that it is "more safe" just to teach art, occasionally accept a commission or two and rather not step into the world, where you must show your real self and what you believe in. And I remember that day in my art school, when I suddenly realized, how I say to the students words and sentences that I wish I told them to myself ... That I wish that someone told that things to me long time ago... Empowering others was also empowering me. And it's not so much about that famous feeling that many artists have - of "being an impostor" in art world, or floating questions like: "is my work good enough...", or all the stereotypes, planted in my mind during growing up ( the myth of the starving artist) ... 13 years ago I didn't have a voice I have now. 13 years ago I didn't have kids that taught me so much about me and about life. The one, who was diagnosed with asperger's, shifted my view about how I see the world. It "only" took one pandemic to look at my life from a different point of view ... Through my work I wish to spread the message
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MALO BOLJ OSEBNO : )
Res je, tale rahlo čudno strmeča oseba na fotografijo zgoraj sem jaz. Pred 13 leti (in tole pišem v letu 2021) jo je posnel moj mož, torej ... par stvari se je spremenilo. : ) Ta podoba mi je res všeč zaradi čudovite turkizne barve reke Soče ... Z otrokoma živimo v majhni vasi v bližini Kranja. Obdajajo nas hribi z gozdovi in gore. In ja, tudi pes je tu. In dve mački, ki sta uradno naši, a iz nekega razloga raje živita pri naših sosedih (... ki so čisto slučajno moji starši). Vem, kaj si mislite. Ampak naj vam povem - tako ni zaradi nas, Pes je razlog. Odkar pomnim, sem vedela, da želim ustvarjati v življenju. Vedno sem nerazložljivo preprosto vedela, da bo to nekaj, kar bom počela poklicno. Po zaključenem magistrskem študiju slikarstva sem ustanovila zasebno slikarsko šolo. Vse je šlo zelo dobro (spomnim se, da me je to na začetku kar malo presenetilo...). A nekako nikoli nisem imela časa "zase". Skrb za družino, veliko dela, žongliranje s prioritetami ... ... Ta nova doba je spremenila stvari. Rekla sem si - zdaj ali nikoli. ... Ko gledam nazaj, vidim, kako sem zmotno podzavedno verjela, da je "bolj varno" samo učiti slikanje, občasno sprejeti v delo naročilo ali dve in raje ne stopiti v svet, kjer moraš pokazati svoj resnični jaz in to, v kaj verjameš. In spomnim se dneva, ko sem med učenjem v šoli nenadoma ugotovila, da tečajnikom govorim besede in stavke, za katere si želim, da bi jih povedala sama sebi ... Da bi jih nekdo že davno prej povedal meni... Opogumljanje drugih je bilo tudi opogumljanje sebe. In ne gre toliko za tisti slavni občutek, ki ga imajo mnogi ustvarjalci - da so "vsiljivci" v svetu umetnosti, ali za prisotnost vprašanj kot so "je moje delo dovolj dobro...?", ali za vse stereotipe, zasajene v moj um med odraščanjem (mit o stradajočem umetniku) ... Pred 13 leti nisem imela glasu, ki ga imam zdaj. Pred 13 leti nisem imela otrok, ki sta me toliko naučila o življenju. Ta, ki mu je bil diagnosticiran Aspergerjev sindrom, je povsem spremenil način, kako gledam na svet. Potrebna je bila "le" pandemija, da sem začela gledati na svoje življenje z drugega zornega kota. S svojim delom želim širiti sporočilo
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Nataša Jan Virant
NOTICE JOYOUS VASTNESS :)
NOTICE JOYOUS VASTNESS :)
We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
V sebi nosimo čudesa, ki jih iščemo zunaj nas.
Rumi
V sebi nosimo čudesa, ki jih iščemo zunaj nas.
Rumi