Eva Visnjic: Art comes from people trying to express things to people

Most artists hope their art will change the world, but only a few of them have such clearly defined social ambitions as Eva Visnjic. This established artist is open to experimenting with different modernist styles, and is best known for figurative oil paintings that depict the world the way she wants to be, rather than as she found it. Drawing on new modernist ideas, Eva presented at her RISD portfolio a series of vivid paintings. Here the color is attractive and slightly more vibrant than her previous works, decorated with warmth and harmonic unity. These paintings offer quiet enjoyment and pleasurable reflections. With these paintings, Visnjic invites us to witness the passing pleasures of life.

Whether she’s painting a landscape, still life, or figure, Visnjic always draws inspiration from life. Usually she paints directly from her subject, so each day she approaches the painting she’s working on as if it was a new piece. For her, the richness of information offered by nature, as well as her response to this information, is crucial for the success of her paintings.

Art, in her view, comes from people trying to express things to people. According to the modern artist, it is possible to change the world by simply creating an emotion. However, in an age when communication technology is cutting down the amount of time we are spending together, such minor, personal links between human beings count for an awful lot.

Maintaining these human contacts is important in a world where we’re losing them. After all humans are made to live as groups, as communities, and Visnjic believes art can be a really strong link for that. Artworks are one of the few things that remain, once we have all left this world. Even now, the only thing that we as humanity keep and protect, is what the artists have left behind,

Eva Visnjic works in both watercolor and oil, and she is pleased by the strengths of both. She likes the stickiness of oil and the color action you get from color bumping against color. With oil painting she also likes how she can work over an earlier version of something.

When working on a painting in oil, Eva likes strong color, and as she continues to paint, she responds to the way the color of light might influence her subject, but doesn’t go so far as to exaggerate color. When she works wet into wet, normally she doesn’t use mediums that accelerate drying.

Eva Visnjic aims to take a similar approach with watercolor, but stresses that with this medium you need to create a more fixed drawing to paint on top of. What appeals her most in watercolor, are the transparency and liquid quality of the marks. she likes it when two transparent colors that are far apart on the color spectrum, can mix with each other and create a new, third color.

Visnjic Exhibits Simplistic Beauty

American artist Eva Visnjic paints portraits and landscapes in watercolor that seize the viewer's attention and doesn't let go. In her more recent works of objects that seem to disappear into smears of color, she boldly explores the limits of representation and abstraction. Her paintings immediately astound the viewer with a powerful burst of emotion. Visnjic was born 1973 in Bakersfield, California and over the years she has managed to successfully build a name for herself in the world of art. For this talented artist, painting is a unique platform that helps her express her emotions, wit, irony and repeal. Quite often her paintings have a satirical or parodical note and commentate on consumerism, whilst challenging traditional artistic conventions. Her use of luminous colors that she so effortlessly marries together, result in a unified composition. The simplistic beauty behind her inspiration draws you within her world, grabbing your complete attention.

This established contemporary artist is currently working out of California, where she has set up her art studio. Eva Visnjic works primarily in the abstract but occasionally she adds unravel figures into his paintings in order to create a multi-layered and complicated composition that demands focused attention.

Visnjic brings light into each of her works by dramatizing the subjects in a way that a photo simply can't. Her latest work that is yet to be exhibited in Los Angeles combines both a realistic and impressionistic style, creating a unique synergy that preserves detail while maintaining a loose and expressive stroke. Loose, wide brushstrokes and fresh color add energy to Eva's watercolor paintings and portraits of ordinary men and women in common everyday situations. She skillfully combines transparent washes of vibrant, flowing color and rich, complex glazes, resulting in a realistic depiction that retains a fresh, spontaneous quality.

For many months, almost an entire year, Eva has been busy creating a series of new watercolor portrait and landscape paintings, as well as encaustic paintings for different gallery exhibitions and events. After her exhibition Visnjic is planning to continue painting, and has already designed the concept for her next work.