RATKO

Ratkos work is more or less like him: full of contrasts. What does that mean? He like abstract acrylic painting the same way he like clean water color illustration. Ratko listen to hard rock and a couple of minutes later to classical or jazz music. One morning he wear jeans and a hoody, a couple of hours later he instead dressing up in a suit. Pigeonhole thinking does not work for Ratko.
Most of the time he work with acrylics on larger scale canvas or paper. Using a lot of different brushes and palette knifes. Inspired by everything he see, hear, feel, smell or taste: from the moment he get up in the morning until the last thought he have in the evening. Ratkos brain absorbs everything like a sponge, mixes every impression until they create one smooth intuitive idea.

Ratko tells: “I once asked a young lady who was looking at one of my paintings, if I might tell her about the idea behind the painting. She looked a somewhat confused and amazed at me and told me, “ No, why should you? Either the painting catches me the first second I look at it or not. I dont need the story behind. I see my own.”

“With every picture I create, I hope to listen to a new story that YOU might tell me, a story YOU see, what YOU feel when you look at my painting.”