Ljiljana Barković – Sails-Diptych

Born in Rijeka, Croatia, in 1980, where she also attended the elementary school. She completed secondary education in Opatija and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, graduating in the class of Professors Metka Krašovec and Jože Muhovič in 2008. That same year she enrolled in postgraduate studies at the Academy. She works as a freelance artist. Between 2005 and 2006 she was running a painting workshop in Mošćenička Draga. Between 2008 and 2010 she mostly worked in Ljubljana on several restoration projects. She has exhibited her work in ten group exhibitions including the White-Blue-Red in Tmava, Slovakia, and she held three individual shows. She has also taken part in many colonies and symposia in Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Italy. Ljiljana is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists in Rijeka. She occasionally runs painting workshops and lives and works in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Mošćenička Draga (Croatia).