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is
an artist with a multicultural profile. Born in Slovenia. Educated in Italy, England
and the Netherlands.
Lived and worked as well in Paris and California. She learnt
7 languages.
She started organizing and holding painting & creativity workshops
in 1996.
She studied Fine Art in Florence,
Italy, at the
International School of Fine Art Fortman Studios,
later on at Staffordshire Polytecnic, Stoke-on-Trent, England,
Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice,
Italy and earned her
M.F.A. in Painting from Fine Art Academy Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands in 1995.
She is currently living at Villa Flora, Branik in the Mediterranean Wine
Country of Slovenia a villa apartment rental
as well as an Artist Retreat www.villaflora.si. (Central Europe). Lately she has been very much
attracted by explosive energy of the South-East Asia.
Followed by extended stays in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bali,
Indonesia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
and Chiang Mai, Thailand. Collaborations with
Asian galleries as Instinc in Singapore, Wina in
Bali, 116 Art Gallery
in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She exhibited as a “New
Find” at Art Singapore 2010 as well as extensively at AAF Singapore 2010. For 2012 she has personal
exhibitions planed at Rotunda Gallery in Bangkok,
The Substation Arts Center in Singapore, Dubai
International Art
Center as
well as many group museum shows in Slovenia.
She is a member of Slovenian Artist Association
since 1996.
She had many exhibitions in
different countries as in Italy,
The Netherlands, Slovenia,
USA, South Africa, Spain,
France and Hong Kong.
Her works are in many private and public
collections around the world.
During the course of 15
years spent in Italy,
she has acquired a fluency in Italian and a wealth of knowledge in art
history, food, wine and general tourism that will provide invaluable
assistance to anyone planning to visit this historic part of the world.
During her
stay abroad she has also acquired a fluency in English and French.
For more information as
well as to see photos of her work, please visit:
http://www.tjasairis.com/
Tjaša Iris on WIKIPEDIA pages:
- in
Slovenian http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tjasa_Iris
Tjaša: "I
hold my first workshop in 1996. The Gallery - Cultural Foundation Fondazione Villa Benzi Zecchin from nearby Venice, Italy organized my first personal exhibition. And with the
intention to
promote my first show they also organized painting workshops conducted by me.
I liked the experience very much. And the summer after that I organized my
first workshop in Tuscany. Since than I made a long way. I hold today up to 15
workshops per year at different locations as in Italy, France and Slovenia. In 15 years of career I had participants of many
professions from all 6 continents and from about 25 countries...
Most of my participants are
from United
States, Canada and European countries. But I had participants also from
Australia, New Zeland, South Africa,
Belize, Argentina, Anguilla, Israel,
China, Hong
Kong, Singapore,
Lebanon as from Great Britain, The Netherlands, Italy, Ireland,
Switzerland, Romania, Germany,
Macedonia, Norway, France..."
.... and many who
returned second, third and even for the fifth time."
Please note that the workshops are as well opened to patrons of art who want
to support the work of Tjaša Iris. By giving a
donation – a financial aid to help fund one of the future Tjaša’s
art exhibitions and art projects, you will be granted a workshop. Here is
a LIST of the exhibitions that you can help fund.
Your
donations are tax deductible. Also in the past centuries, there would never
be great artists without great patrons of art – who supported their art.
“There would be no Renaissance without the Medici family” as Tjaša says. All doners will be publicly named in Tjaša’s next published catalogue (unless they
want to remain anonymous) as well as on the web site under the project that
they help fund.
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Tjaša Iris
Tjaša Iris during the painting workshop in
Tuscany
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