My name is Zvezda Pavonic-Dimitrijevic, born 1974 in Serbia where I grew up. 1991 I came to Vienna.

No, I did not attend any art school. Raised in a mining area, I learned the trade of goldsmith, a trade typical for this area. I have never thought that I would ever be so occupied with painting. Live is just unpredictable and often goes in a different direction than we have  planned. Rarely it gets as we wish and imagine. Some years ago I was torn from my active life by illness. I was very disappointed then, angry and desperate and did not know how to go on. And then by mere chance I started drawing and painting. That did e great deal of good to me and I started to enjoy life again.

It was like a kind of therapy and balm for my soul. I went on developing autodidactically and can't imagine my daily life without art any more. It's just good for the soul to create something, something perfect, clear for me and of my own and above all to see that others  enjoy it too.

I'm a perfectionist and attach great importance to order and accuracy. That might be the reason for my special liking of portraits, vivid colours and shapes.

I'm fascinated by persons, facial expressions and the human body in general. I love painting faces and persons, to capture the expression, the glance of people and fix it on a paper or canvas. I also try to bring the human body by means of colours and shapes onto the canvas. Cubism is a chapter of modern art which fascinates and interests me equally, as well as abstract art.

Art for me is something beautiful, a different world, a place of retreat where I find peace, comfort and satisfaction after a stressful day or whenever I don't feel good, even if it's only for a short time.

Zvezda Pavonic-Dimitrijevic, Serbia / Austria
http://www.zvezda-art.at

artwork by Zvezda Pavonic-Dimitrijevic