Biography

Barbara Špiljak Presečki was born in 1977 in Ptuj.
She finished both primary and primary music school, as well as gymnasium in Krapina. She graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture in 2002 in Zagreb.
She has lived in Istria since 2005, where she worked in the field of landscape architecture and garden art until 2017.She has been painting since primary school, and in 2000, she started an active self-development in that field. She hasn't attended any art schools, courses or art workshops.She is a member of the Arts and Literature Association Uliks in Pula and the Arts Association LUP in Poreč.

She has exibited in Labin, Pula, Poreč, Funtana and Pićan so far. In 2018 her love for art becomes her profession and she now paints and makes souvenirs in her studio-gallery in Kukurini near Pićan.Since she was a child, she has had a destinctive style, upgraded and complemented by new techniques and materials.

Although she paints landscapes, nature, portraits...the most interesting are the creative motifs of imaginary worlds and creatures which can sometimes be determined as pure naive, and sometimes cannot be determined at all. The painter finds her inspiration in the scenery of the external, and the playfulness of her internal world, all by using bright colours, interesting compositions and rhythm.

All these elements show that the painter's art will continue its course for sure, with further development, experimentation and hard work.
Let her motto always follow her – ''When I paint, I feel the freedom of my soul, I feel like a bird with my wings widespread, there are no obstacles or rules, only the feeling of freedom, peace and love.''

Ester Diklić