About Andrea Solaja

Andrea Solaja is a Croatian and Italy primarily based artist. She was a younger woman when she needed to witness the horror of a struggle. That loot ultimately developed into artwork to reassure her from feeling misplaced. 

“After I was ten, I lived in a bunker for a number of months whereas my nation, Serbia, was being bombed. My sole supply of reduction to flee from the horrors of these days was imagining worlds and creating tales inside the sunshine of the one candle I had. The shadows projected on the partitions would flip into the shapes of the ever-changing characters of my creativeness, I can see my fingers weaving evanescent particulars that blended with the condensation and the chilly. That mild shone on an outer house that was too small for a kid. I needed to create one to grow to be inside, and immense. I maintain my childhood and its goals inside that small flame. I sealed the darkness I had inside with the wax and with the wick, I tied the recollections of a life that was not going to be mine anymore. My artwork unfolds across the narration of that mild. My work are symbionts of the sport of contrasting mild and darkish which narrate with out revealing, which drain my internal emotions on the canvas stopping the shapes from changing into obstacles.”

At daybreak, Andrea sees nothing however weightless fog. She perceives contours and indefinite shapes that she shouldn’t be capable of outline. So she will get misplaced, on the mercy of minuscule droplets wraping her up with no warmth.
“My sluggish velocity guides me into an area I don’t totally perceive, however I really feel mine. I stretch my hand, and acknowledge my canvas, my brushes. My imaginative and prescient remains to be blurred however the reminiscence is alive, and evokes the pictures I’m searching for.”

Hi there Andrea. When or how have you ever understood you needed to grow to be an artist?

I’ve at all times knew I used to be an artist since a younger age.

Are you able to inform us extra about your approach and what drives you to make artwork?

On my canvas I categorical the bond with the salvific nature of the weather by utilizing the supplies I beforehand gather in pure environments, as clays, limestone powder, burnt wooden, and barks. Looking for pigments that convey my objective drives me to get misplaced in precisely ridden Karst trails and into caves the place calcite turns into veins and arteries emerge from the center of the earth. This course of it’s pure alchemy to me.

In my atelier I then mix the supplies that I’ve harvested, and I prepare them on the canvas. I search for the correct adherence, probably the most particular consistency.

Nature is at all times current in my analysis, both because the background of the tales I’ve chosen to eternalize or as the principle image.

What’s the primary function that has developed in your observe?

The Karst the place I get impressed, pours its colors into me, crashing in opposition to the wall I’ve inside. I really feel chromatic landslides, hollows of ideas that urge to interrupt free.

I really feel as if this land, so tough the place the blinding white of the limestone stands out and dominates the entire setting, understands my narrative urge. There, I discover the matter for my works each time. I dip my arms into the purple soil, and I grow to be one with the world. I’m born once more.

The warmth I felt on my face whereas my entire physique was freezing, is now not the identical . Now, it permeates me. I took off the veil. It’s me.

Which artist primarily conjures up your work? And is there one thing else, outdoors visible arts, that retains you motivated?

Artists that encourage me are Artemisia Gentileschi, Jenny Saville and Ceciy Brown. Nature is my greatest supply of inspiration.

How would you want individuals to interact along with your work?

I paint the tales that strike my chords, with which I understand a bond.

As a tailor, I wrap my canvas across the viewer to grow to be the story he must witness.

Unfold the phrase! Do you may have something thrilling on the horizon?

I’m presently engaged on a brand new sequence, fabricated from cardboard and paper, impressed by the wabi sabi philosophy. 

Go here to view extra of Andrea’s work.