Natalie Slaba
Natalie Slaba is a self-taught young artist. She uses art as a necessary tool to better understand and pull together abstract ideas that linger in the world of her imagination. With her brush, she extracts those ideas to create surreal and abstract art. Even though she is only seventeen, she has had quite an eventful beginning to life; she has lived in five different countries, alternating between two continents. Art has served her as a tool to finding roots within herself, while being carelessly tossed around the globe.
As her view of the world broadens with travelling and her self-compassion strengthens, the relationship with her art grows within her. She sees it as a way of communicating her most inner human fabric that she believes to be within every one of us. It portrays desperation, hope, faith, fear, suffering, peace and all the elements that merge together, painting the complexities of human nature. Even though she speaks three languages fluently (English, French and Czech), art is her first tongue that she values the most, since it can be understood universally.
The stain is starting point and outcome of an artistic expression of Mateja Šmic. It is mandala of a kind at the same time, composed of energy of color and lines. It helps her to describe her impressions of the outer world, and opens a space in which she can extricate, for herself and all of us, important information. Often she does that in the manner of action-art creation, when she reduces action time to only one moment and converts impression in the form of expressive abstract. By doing so, she segregates piece of purified or almost pure emotion on the surface of the painting. The artist's second way of creative experiencing the "stain of art", maybe even more interesting to some is eventful. With prime color and structural graphism it offers a feeling of the time passage; accentuate rhythm and the illusion of the sound as the lead to surrealism. Smic manages to develop strong dramatics of possible happenings, in a range of material – physical and unfathomable – metaphysical; dramatics of certainty and uncertainty at the same time, by delicate modeling of fragments of art stain, rich lines and unrestricted colourism.
She believes that art can unite us as human beings, to go beyond our egos and surface prejudice. "Art reaches inside of me and pulls out from deep within the love, peace, and serenity that my idealist eyes hope to see in the world. It is a universal tool that all of us can connect to as human beings, when stripped of our egos. I paint for peace; for a better day." She is diversified over many mediums, but she likes to specialize in life size paintings (like Corruption of Perspective, In the collection presented in this gallery, she showcases mostly fine art photographs of her wall paintings and acrylic paintings.
