Lištica

THE CURE BY A HORSE

The painting series reflects the author's relation towards horses, feelings connected with personal contact with them and individual experience, which the author is trying to mediate in paintings. Distinctive motive in images is a being hugging horses. It represents a sick person. This figure came to paintings progressively in relation with affairs of the autumn semester of the year 2021. It was a period of illness and at the same time exhaustion, which was related also with painting. Inevitable became abandonment of previous topic "Swimmers" and the need for finding a new topic, or redefinition of an old one. At first appeared separated figures of sick persons. These figures were rid of their nose and mouth, only big red and painful eyes, reflecting inner ache, remained to them. However, gradually the thematised illness also took with it a need for cure and recovery, which came into images with an arrival of horses. Horses, a sojourn with them, represent for the author a very personal topic, to which she returns via painting. Paintings in this series, opposite to other, even more thematise spending time together with horses, taking care of them and the way how a contact with them has an impact on person who is kindred with them. In the images appear ordinary moments connected with feeding or grooming horses, moments of sadness related to sudden departures, with which the one should deal with and extraordinary moments like horses floating.

painting of a horse, huging with horses, tempera painting, Lištica