ERNA FERJANIČ - Slovenia

CONTACTS:Prešernova ul. 31, 3250 Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia (SLO)

Email: mailto:erna.ferjanic@gmail.com Phone: 00386 40 74 83 89

Sun II

Sun III

acrylic, mixed media, 60 x 60 cm

acrylic, comb, canvas cm 60 x 60

Sun VI

Sun

acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 cm

acrylic on canvas 70 x 50 cm

Sun IV

Sun in wood

acrylic on canvas 100 x 80 cm

acrylic on canvas cm 60 x 60

Her Biography

ERNA FERJANIČ was born in 1955 in Celje (SLO). She attended primary school in Rogaška Slatina and grammar school in Celje. After graduating from the Pedagogical Academy, Department of Art (Ljubljana, Maribor), she worked as an art teacher at a primary school in Ljubljana. In the first years of her career she was also involved in theatre scenery and puppet shows. She moved back to Rogaška Slatina and for ten years was the director of the Museum of Graphics, with an interesting Graphics Collection (from the 16th to the 19th cent.). After working at the Museum (when problems with state ownership arose) she returned to teaching. Besides painting and sculpture she works in graphics and graphic design, illustration, photography, and mentors art groups for children and adults (University of the Third Age).

She also organizes art meetings, international ex tempore events (eight times), colonies and symposia, international art workshops, and important (international) exhibitions in various galleries. At the Glass Factory in Rogaška Slatina she organized, for five years, a unique glass workshop (for artists) in cooperation with glass masters.

She also writes poetry and newspaper articles. Erna has published four books of her poems: Seven Crosses, The Dead Flower, Half a Heart, I Sing a Song.

She has exhibited her artworks in over 130 solo and over 400 group exhibitions in major galleries in the former YU (Belgrade, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Split, Zemun), in galleries in Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Canada and China. She also cooperates with other artists in colonies and workshops in Slovenia and abroad.

For her work she has received (also international) prizes (12) and awards (16).

She is a member of:

Art Association of Fine Artists - DLUM, Maribor, SLO (since 2004),

The Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies – ZDLUS, SLO (since 2004),

Art Association Široka staza in Zemun, Serbia (since 2006),

National Association of Glass Art of Slovenia (since 2014, vice-president),

Literary Association Sončnica, Rogaška Slatina (since 2012, president),

Artists International Gallery, U.K. (2017).

On her latest works

Artist Erna Ferjanič has been inspired by nature all her life. Her large body of work is created in cycles with different titles: Trees, Grass, Magic Landscapes, My Town in a new perspective (architecture is rarely present in her works).

The Black and White cycle (two years ago) surprised with its connection to music (dedicated to the exotic instrument marimba, which creates a mystical sphere). She painted works on the theme of the instrument (striking the keys), which developed from the “harpsichord” with J. S. Bach in the Baroque period. The works were inspired by the angelic sound of the instrument. Synthetic with sound, light and colours, they are astonishing. These works were also inspired by two inventors of “mystical” harmony: Alexander Scriabin and his coloured pipe organ, and Wassily Kandinsky with the effect of sound. In this cycle E. Ferjanič symbolically creates the sound of a piano with expressive curved objects and space, from Euclidean to non-Euclidean space into multidimensional space where sound, light, cosmic strings and all forms of energy form a functional, vibrating totality – a groundwork of the Universe (like the symphony Harmonia Mundi by Paul Hindemith for J. Kepler). In this way the piano is a symbol of Space and of Life.

In the new cycles Sun and A Walk of Lightness the artist made collages on paper (mixed techniques) – the works are an eruption of ideas. Trees, grass, bushes can be seen between rays of lightness (rays without colour) passing through plant forms. The Sun is a well of Life. E. Ferjanič made this cycle with the “classic” technique of acrylic on canvas, but some works were made in mixed technique (with lace and glued sand on the base of the future work). We experience these pictures as associative abstract artworks with allusions to plant and geological forms and planets, with symbols of Tellus mater (Gaia). Life is fertilized by the light of the Sun. The Sun is glowing lightness; there is a large fiery disc above the simplified landscape. The impression is that the works are an illustration of Akhenaten’s Hymn to the Sun God Aten.

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