Has been living in Winnipeg since 1997 and became a Canadian citizen in the year 2000.
Until 1997, lectured fresco and mosaic at Faculty of Fine Arts at University of Pristine, Kosovo.
Was a member of Association of Fine Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Association of Fine Arts of Serbia.
Exhibited in 13 major individual (4 in Canada - Main/Access Gallery, Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, Site Gallery and Piano Nobile Gallery) and over 100 group shows.
Recipient of several artistic awards in his ex-homeland.
His work has been supported by Winnipeg Arts Advisory Council.
There was an important period in my artistic education when I
realized that the strictly representational held little to satisfy my creative curiosity. If
I had to pinpoint some of the earliest and most important influences in my work, they would
be the following: French Fauvism (mainly Matisse); the Russian Creative Experiment (Malevitch,
Kandinski); and the Modernist trailblazers, such as Picasso, Mondrian and Klee.
These influences inspired the last major cycle of Minimalist painting produced in my native
Yugoslavia under title From White to Whiteness - a title drawn from scriptural quote
"From White we come, into whiteness we disappear".
Since arriving in Canada, I have been exploring new avenues in my work, inspired by a
combination of tough new challenges. There is mixed emotions of saying goodbye to my
homeland; the difficult memories of the war I have been through; and the day to day
struggle of finding a place for myself in the artistic life of North America.
Recently, my work is a product of my contemplation about colour as a painterly phenomenon.
Starting, sometimes from real, but more often imaginary landscapes, colour has led me towards
the new, the unknown and the never-before-seen. I have not endeavored to describe; rather,
my venture was to create. Freed from all influences, my works have evolved into purely
tactile and visual experiences.
