Flower Power - Ball Point Pen, Coloured Pencil 12'' x 16.5'' Renata Cebular creates lyrical artworks that form visual harmonies out of chaos. Her work, produced with ballpoint pen and colored pencil, has an Op Art appearance at first glance due to the swirling abstract explosions of color and pattern. Yet on looking closer, we find that the images recall such different subjects as plant life and flowers, birds and fireworks, becoming meditative and soulful. Whimsical lines released for a frenetic journey loop and cross themselves, forming shapes for patterns and color to fill. Cebular’s technique is to draw the basic patterns at the beginning, using both hands, and this lends a natural sensation to Cebular’s work, as if the everyday doodle has taken a wonderful turn and been transformed into fine art. “The patterns and forms, colors and lines flow from the art daydreams onto the paper out of a feeling of timelessness and harmony of the given moment,” she explains. The disparate regions of the image unify to create the whole, a dynamic visual symphony.

Cebular’s art is usually a smaller, personal size but it is not rare for her to create works that reach over two feet in width, a great endeavor considering her chosen medium. Her work is a study of spontaneity, of the line as it unfurls outward in space and in time. There are no safety nets, no sketches or templates in Renata Cebular’s creative process; there is only the moment and the artist. She currently resides in Switzerland.

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