Gordana's art works is about sharing it with people and hope that it helps them to open up and nurture their beings. She feels that creativity and art are the essence and flow of life, and that art is more than just appealing to the eye or entertaining. True art goes beyond beauty; it inspires and enhances life physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
        Gordana, according to her mother, has been creating art since she was eating crayons as a child, and digging in the clay 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. A few years ago she decided to devote herself to an art profession full time. The decision had its seed sprouting silently from the time civil war tore her native Sarajevo and Yugoslavia. She lost her family, friends, native language, property… Gordana found that her immersion in art, all of the simple things that needed to be observed and appreciated in that process, provided an avenue to healing.
        Gordana has been fortunate to view the artists of the past in Europe's great museums, and that art and art history were a part of her early education. She is the most influenced by the artists from Renaissance period. Perhaps childhood mud cakes skills played a part too, as she started her full-time quest taking classes and various workshops in ceramics and sculpting. Growing as an artist Gordana discovered the new mediums of charcoal, pastel and acrylic.

August 2008