Who Am I

I am Ivana Vidovic, from Split, Croatia.
I studied philosophy, sociology, marketing and sales, but I always painted.
I grew up with paintings on the walls,since my great-grandfather was Emanuel Vidovic, famous Croatian modernist painter
He and my grandfather after him, collected paintings so instead of the posters that most teenagers looked at, I looked at our paintings: Job, Dulčić, Pulitika, Stančić, Vidović…

My father and I shared the love for Gauguin, Van Gogh, Chagall, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne… We would go through little books we had of so many artists and he would teach me about different styles and the artists’ lives.

I decided as a young woman to not study arts, influenced by Kafka, a writer who didn’t want to study literature.

I love the innocence of a layman speaking through the art.
The lack of skill and the authenticity of the emotion have always been appealing to me.

For some years now I create digital art on my smartphone using an app called ibisPaintX. And sometimes I combine drawing on paper with digital art.

The motifs that you will see in my paintings are philosophical. What interests me is the meaning of life, or the lack of it, loneliness vs solitude, good vs evil.

There is a lot of pain and suffering turned into beauty and hope.

I suffer from trigeminal neuralgia, a very painful condition that tests my resilience, and I find comfort in painting.

Sometimes the process itself means more than the product.
Hopefully the product has its value too.

Education

Professor of philosophy and sociology
Marketing and sales master’s degree
Manager of EU funded projects

Exhibitions/Publications

I had an exhibition in my University in Zadar.
My digital art has been used as illustration for a poetry collection Sastanak u tajnosti by late Ivana Buric (all except for the cover).

I made 2 covers for a hc/punk album of the band Abergaz Sonyaphobia 1 and Sonyaphobia 2