EXHIBITION : Jelena Lukic
Open Saturday 1 April - Tuesday 30 May 2023
10am - 4pm
FREE entry

Jelena Lukić is influenced by her parents’ Slavic roots with the colours and folklore woven into her art. Birds, animals and human forms are surrounded by plant imagery. Painting in oils or acrylic paint and digitally she layers and blends methods and processes.

Drawing on the poetic work of Joan Miro, Jelena enjoys the relationship of shape and colour in his paintings and sculptures. Exploring shapes, colour, paint, collage, printed image, relationship and language. Her inspiration comes from emotion.

She enjoys the work of Ilija Bosilj, a Serbian outsider painter of peasant origin. ‘The colours and images in his work contain sense of story often with religious themes which resonate with me, reminding me of my childhood. Much of his work dealt with religion and folk legends and two-headed and two-faced creatures are a common theme. These themes of two-headed and two-faced creatures have surfaced in my work. I admire how Bosilj plays with perspective creating a flat two-dimensional world often inhabited by men and demons, snakes, fish, anthropomorphic creatures, and spacemen.’ 

Royal Academy of Art, London, Postgraduate
Sheffield Polytechnic, BA Hons First
Cambridge College of Art and Technology, Foundation