About the artist

Snežana Jakšić

“I paint because it is the quietest way I know to pay attention.”

Snežana Jakšić — Neni to those who know her — was born in 1965 in Višegrad. She was winning painting competitions while still in elementary school, and the brush never really left her hand. She went on to study mechanical engineering, and that training still shows: in the steady line, the careful geometry, the patience of someone who learned to draw machines before she painted flowers. Since 2003 she has also worked as a teacher, spending her days with children. Neni has been painting seriously for about fifteen years. She began with printmaking, then worked her way through many techniques, and today paints mostly in acrylic and oil on canvas. Abstraction is closest to her heart, but she returns again and again to flowers and landscapes — magnolias, hydrangeas, moonlit water, winter streams. Her prices are deliberately modest. Her view is simple: a painting should end up on a wall where it is loved, not be priced out of reach. Every work is sold professionally framed and ready to hang.