Born:   Zagreb, Croatia

Studies:  Graphic Arts - Zagreb

   Painting - Paris, France

   Design  - Rome Italy

   Painting, Sculpture, Print making - Perth, WA

Awards: First Prize  - Wanneroo Art Prize

   First Prize  - Australia Day Festival

   First Prize  - Northam Art Prize

   First Prize  - Harvey Art Prize

Recent Acquisitions: - Princess Margaret Hospital Collection

   - Newman College Collection

   - Penrhos College Collection

   - City of Armadale Collection

More Reference: - Publications and Reviews

ARTSTALK  Vol 2, No. 5, 1993 – Page 5

A SPIRITED PLACE 25 years at the Claremont School of Art, 1993

   National Library Catalogue ISBN 0 646 15075 8, - Pages 112,153

AUSTRALIAN ARTIST No. 125, Nov 1994 – Pages 20 to 25, ISSN 0813-8095

WHO’S WHO OF AUSTRALIAN VISUAL ARTISTS, 1995

   (Second Edition)  ISBN 875589 821

During the late eighties I endeavoured to develop an idea that haunted me for years but lacking conviction and experience, never had enough courage to confront it in the past.  Ensuing studies crystallised in a theory I now call “Luminism”.  It is a theory about light based on belief that light in nature is hemispherically diverse.  To interpret such a heavenly concoction I classified light as a tonal light and as a chromatic light.  Traditionally light was perceived on the basis of a tone.  Luminism is concerned with interpretation of a chromatic light, its planes and its gravitations, achievable on the basis of colour alone.

“Colour alone”, Bonnard argued almost a century ago, “could convey light, form and character, values(tones) need not be added.”

After all, if colour and form can only be seen in light, it is inevitable therefore that, the more light there is the more colour one must see..  Hence, it makes sense to me that any search for light should be based on colour.  Tone is not the causal factor of light but only a consequence – a mere side effect.

Luminism allows one to escape the whimsical urges of conscience self, past convictions and the might of conventional thought and evokes the power of lateral thinking, emotion, subconscious and unknown, where there are few rules other than those that work for oneself.  In its rich and wonderful diversity, art contains and caters for many truths though always the only tangible truth is the finished product itself.  No “ism” can claim to be all things to all people, hence, to some, Luminism might be painting with a strait jacket on, but to me it is just like taking one off.