Art Gallery by Suzana Stojanović

▪ In the course of history, horses have been faithful companions to people and contributed to the development of civilization. Their divine beauty appeared in many paintings throughout the world. Horses have always been and will stay an inexhaustible source of inspiration to many artists. I hope that my work would give at least a small contribution to cherishing the value and beauty of this thoroughbred animal.
▪ I"ve been caring memories on horses from my earliest childhood. My great grand-father kept horses. I was so little and they were so big. The thing that left one unique and memorable trace is the glance in their eyes and deep look that kept following me all my life. Horses were and have remained for me one great secret... Even then I realized that horse motive would haunt me forever. There has not been a single painting where one could not feel their presence. I saw horses everywhere, in our past, present and future, in fairy tales, games, battles, in forgotten wildness... I wanted to paint many paintings with horses but I did not feel enough ready to stand up to that kind of great temptation. Horse was for me something supreme and so hard to be reachable. It is not enough only to transfer its beauty to the painting canvas or cardboard. With the age of 19 I stopped with painting. The period of perception came, life experience period, new knowledge and new studiousness, experiments and wandering. From one day to another, from one year to another, I was feeling more and more strength and energy that was accumulating in me and it was only the matter of the day when that would come out of me...and it happened. After full 13 years of pause my first painting was a horse portrait. I felt that a horse is the only motive through which I could present myself. Horses inflicted not only with their beauty but also with the things that they have been caring deep down in themselves for centuries. All their pride, dignity, intelligence reflect in their eyes. Their looks haunt, remind, disturb and force us to think. When you once bind yourself to their looks it is very hard to separate from that. It follows you everywhere. I like horses, especially Arabians. It is very hard to catch the moment when they want actually to say something. They speak with their moves and looks. Horses are my eternal inspiration: always beautiful, always different and always their own - they bind centuries and civilizations, in their eyes they carry the records of battles, games, loves and fairy tales. This is the way the series "The Magical World of Horses" began to appear... Thousands of hours of inexhaustible work. I paint in the way I feel, I paint with heart. It is the only way to fell complete. It all happens instinctively or it does not happen at all. Painting is not the matter of learning. You either are born with it or not, it comes out of you or doesn't. I always place my paintings before me. They speak, I don't. Every painting is one separate story, one single moment of my life and carries in itself those few words we are always missing to describe in complete certain appearance, creature, feeling... Painting is one beautiful, unexplained world, felt differently by each artist and it is very hard to share it with anyone. There I go alone and that is my world, my Empire, my freedom and my wideness...
Says Suzana Stojanović, an artist.