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Anita Jokovich is an abstract painter who uses the ocean, sky and its surrounds as inspiration for her work. Her paintings are intuitive and gestural, creating forms which appear and disappear amongst layers of paint; encouraging the viewer to be immersed and inspired with imaginative thought. The technique of layering paint to create dark and light are likened to the perpetual motion of the water and this layered style shows the contrasts between the calm and brutal forces of the sea. Anita conveys an emotional intensity in her work through the painting process to portray divergent emotions onto the canvas.
Anita holds a Bachelor of Arts in Design & Art from Curtin University, Perth, Australia. She has held several solo and group exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne since 2008, completed many commissions for private collections and has exhibited four times at The Other Art Fair in Sydney and Melbourne. Anita was part of the ‘Waverley Artist in Residency’ program at the Waverley School of Arts resulting in a solo show at the Bondi Pavilion. In 2021, she was a finalist in the Art To Art Unearthed Prize and the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award (online). Anita works from her the Comber Street studios in Sydney.