Tjaša Iris is a Slovenian visual artist. She works with both photography and painting, depicting vibrant and saturated images of flowers, gardens and vegetation. Iris’ primary focus is investigating the expressive abilities and nuances of colour.
Expressionist Concerns
Iris’ earlier work centered on landscapes with a warmer Southern European and mediterranean atmosphere and colour palette. Her more recent paintings and photographs take a closer look at the flora of the natural world, exploring the vibrant colours in a dynamic and uplifting style. Her work borrows sentiments from the Expressionist movement, placing importance on the emotional experience rather than depicting a faithful reality.
An Exceptional Colourist
Iris works with vivid, light and highly pigmented colours, using them straight from the tube instead of diluting them. Through her fluid use of colour, we notice the contrasts between light and dark, bright, warm tones and more sober ones. Her main preoccupation is to create something uplifting and bright in a world where, often, darkness pervades.
Important Institutions
Iris has exhibited extensively worldwide in countries such as Italy, Thailand, India, Slovenia, Singapore and France. She has exhibited in institutions such as, The Substation Art Center in Singapore, Chiang Mai CMU Art Museum, Austrian Embassy Bangkok and the BACC Bangkok Arts and Culture Center.
Education
1993 – 1995 GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS, M.A. Academie Minerva (Audio Visual Art – Painting)
1994 MILANO/VENICE, ITALY, Erasmus Student at Academia Nuova, Milano and Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice (Painting)
1992 STOKE–ON–TRENT, U.K. Exchange student at Staffordshire Polytecnic. (Photography)
1990 – 1992 FLORENCE, ITALY, B.A. International School of Fine Arts FORTMAN STUDIOS (Photography, Color Theory, Painting)
Exhibitions
selected personal exhibitions
(* indicates a publication)
2018-2019 HONG KONG, “10 Monsoons in Southeast Asia” at La Fenice Art Gallery
2018 BANGKOK, THAILAND at Austrian Embassy Bangkok
2017 BANGKOK, THAILAND “Gardens of Eden – Paintings from a New Dimension “at BACC Bangkok Art & Culture Center
2014 – 2015 CHIANG MAI, THAILAND, “Gardens of Eden”, 137 Pillar House Art Gallery 14 Dec. – 15 March.
2013 – 2014 BANGKOK, THAILAND, “Gardens of Eden”, Jamjuree Art Gallery 26. Dec. – 16 Jan. *
2013 CHIANG MAI, THAILAND, “Gardens of Eden”, Chiang Mai CMU Art Museum. 8 – 30 Nov. *
2012 SINGAPORE, “The Substation” Contemporary Art Center, 22 May – 2 June 2012.
2011 BANGKOK, THAILAND, “Garden of Eden”, Neilson Hays Rotunda Gallery.
2011 KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, UCSI Kuala Lumpur University. *
2010 UBUD, BALI, INDONESIA, Wina Gallery. (two women show)
2010 SINGAPORE, AAF – The Affordable Art Fair Singapore, E7. *
2010 SINGAPORE, As NEW FIND at ART SINGAPORE 2010. *
2010 SINGAPORE, Instinc Art Gallery. *
2009 KOPER, SLOVENIA, Gallery Meduza, Coastal Galleries Piran. *
2005 BRANIK, SLOVENIA, Villa Flora. Open Studio “PARIS PAINTINGS”.
2005 PARIS, FRANCE Two man show Tjaša Demšar and Diek Grobler (South Africa), Cite´Internationale des Arts.
2003 ONLINE, U.S.A., d’ART Gallery
2000 MURSKA SOBOTA, SLOVENIA, Gallery Murska Sobota. *
1999 SKOFJA LOKA, SLOVENIA, Gallery Groharjeva. *
1998 IZOLA, SLOVENIA, Gallery Insula.
1998 SLOVENIA. Gallery Krka. *
1998 PAESE, TREVISO, ITALY, Municipal Gallery.
1997 CAERANO DI SAN MARCO, TREVISO, ITALY. Gallery Villa Benzi Zecchini.
1996 AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, ART EXPO, Amsterdam RAI.
1993 GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS, “Yellow Labyrinth”, Gallery »S«.*
