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Figurative Gestures Exploring the fundamental relationship between humans and nature each piece is full of motion, tension, and transformation. Women are presented in glorious stances, flaunting their natural strength and emotional depth. The works are beautiful and haunting. Textures and impeccable composition all gather in to enchant the viewer.
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Nelida Kalanj
 
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Nelida Kalanj creates paintings that are full of motion, tension, and transformation; they are beautiful and haunting, exploring the fundamental relationship between humans and nature. There is an anthropomorphic aspect to her work, the division between plant and human is blurred as fingers and hair unfurl to become tree roots and limbs. The works are done in a limited palette, with an emphasis on form and line. Born in 1965, in the small picturesque town of Labin, Croatia; Kalanj grew up in community with a distinctive artistic tradition. She was educated at the Academy of Fine Art at the Pedagogical Academy in Rijeka. After her graduation she was granted a position as Professor of art history and visual arts.
Kalanj has a great deal of experience in many forms of media and techniques; she currently favors pastels and mixed media. She has exhibited in her home country and around Europe; many of her works are now in the possession of galleries and museums. Kalanj lives and works in Rijeka, Croatia.
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"Ectasy"
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"Nymph in Movement"
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Monique Luck
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"Out of the Blue"
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"Butterfly Drowning"
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Iva Milanova
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Bulgarian artist, Iva Milanova, creates inspiring works that draw from a wide variety of sources. Within her paintings, one may discover elements of Cubism, Folk Art and Expressionism. But in fact her style eludes definition; Milanova will tailor her aesthetic approach to the subject rather than the opposite. Rich colors and linework greet Milanova’s audience, figural works where women rise from a medley of bright strokes, or purely abstract paintings that found their wellspring within a musical rhythm or quiet reverie. Her style is a personal interpretation of the world, irrepressibly bold and bright with a handling of oil paint that creates lush textures and is coupled with a wonderful sense for pattern.
In explaining why audiences are so engrossed with her paintings, one senses immediately the emotional quality of a piece; her style’s accessibility forms an immediate bond between viewer and artwork. Milanova’s work continues to inspire a great deal of international attention with exhibitions in Venice, Rome, Toronto, New York and Paris. Milanova presently resides in Berlin.
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"Disunion"
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"The Shepherd"
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Ola Rosling
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Swedish artist Ola Rosling is inspired by the drama in a roiling bank of clouds, an ocean churning off a shoreline, or the sensual sweep of a gown. Yet his works are more than naturalistic mirrors. The forces of nature are certainly his subject matter, yet with his inclusion of human figures, the paintings gather an empathetic, dreamlike quality. There are stories in these figures, and, as in his paintings of sea and sky, there is turbulence, both physical and emotional.
Rosling's brush is as quick as his eye, and as forceful as a potent memory. As our gaze follows his vigorous brushwork, we are possessed by the emotional upsweep of his storms, and the pathos in his isolated figures. His painterly style palpably brings forth the urgency of a single moment in nature. To capture an instant on canvas is to elevate that instant, and the beauty of these works is accompanied by this power to move us.
Ola Rosling's commanding yet sensitive works are testaments to the power of memory, and to an artist's aspiration to restore nature, both in ourselves and in the physical world, to its elevated place in our existence.
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"Coast"
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"Dress II"
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