Andrija Selfried

Writing about the young painter Ivana Svjetličić and her newlycreated paintings is challenging. Following the artist from her beginnings, which do not go back that far in the past, her painting career has quickly gained a large audience and critics who enthusiastically accept her works.

This young artist is already a mature painter, and the easel, brush, and paint have become part of her professional orientation.

Her “faces” of famous or unknown people captivate as much with their color as the arrangement of brush strokes. Everything in her work is harmoniously organized and impressively arranged.

With the poetic scouting skill of her coloristic handwriting, Ivana presents and emphasizes the character of the person she portrays. These are “portraits” that deeply touch the psyche, which the artist, through her artistic approach and expression, exposes before the observer, “drawing” him into the painting and the psyche of the person portrayed.

Ivana Svjetličić is a painter for whom color remains the primary guiding thread, and I can freely state that she is one of the rare Croatian painters who has matured in color and is ready for new painting adventures.