Gallery

08/56.
Dragon girl, 2011,
oil on canvas,
80 x 80 cm
Picture is feminine.
Figurative painting demands exercise, so I have always worked
with models.
Barbara, Anette, Lea, Adriana.
It happens, on some occasions, that painting turns into enchantment.
When emotional tension is high enough, a portrait comes out by itself.
You can make no mistake.
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...Azra, Marisa, Yolande, Morena, Mojca, Jadranka, Klarisa...Morena.
In Grožnjan, at the end of the Eighties, we were already a settled group
of young artists and we were ready to take part in the world. Painter and
art critic Franco Migliaccio, one of the founders of the Alchimia group,
got in touch with us. He arranged an invitation for us to participate at
a local festival in Trezzano sul Naviglio on the outskirts of Milan.
One evening in June 1991, my neighbour Karlo Pavlinc and I loaded his
car with paintings and ceramics, to be ready to leave early the next
morning.
It was still dark when the telephone woke me up. It was my father calling
from Ljubljana. He told me the army had just sealed off the frontier.