For Gordana, creativity and art are the essence and flow of life. According to her mother, she has been creating art since eating crayons as a child and digging clay while plying in her own little world. Making mud cakes was a favorite part of her childhood; well, when not climbing the local trees of course. 
        Throughout her twenty-five-year engineering career creating art remained an important component of life, and helped keeping her life balanced. That became more apparent from the time civil war tore her native Sarajevo and Yugoslavia, were Gordana lost family members and friends. Immersion in art provided an avenue for healing. As a refugee she moved to Bellingham in 1992, where she lives and works as an artist today.
        Gordana has been fortunate to visit many Europe's great museums, and that art and art history were part of her early education. That gave her great base to build her career as a professional artist, and can be observed in her figurative art where influence of Renaissance period is apparent. Perhaps those childhood mud cakes skills played their part too. After quitting her engineering profession, she started her full-time art career by taking classes and various workshops in ceramics and sculpting. Getting new lease on life, she opened her heart to be influenced by new adoptive country. Happiness and peaceful living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest are reflected in Gordana’s paintings too.
    Growing as an artist she discovered all these new exciting mediums. Gordana started painting with charcoal, pastel, acrylic, and fabric working towards one goal; that her art surpass being appealing or entertaining, but inspires and enhances life physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.



August 2008