TATJANA MIRKOV-POPOVICKI
Painting, Acrylic
Coastal Arbutus and Jack Pine
acrylic on canvas
48” x 48”
City: Port Moody, British Columbia
Website: https://www.mirkov-popovicki.com/
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Artist Statement: My artistic journey started in the nineties when I arrived in western Canada. Over the following decade, I traveled extensively through BC and Alberta and let the landscape burn its patterns into my mind and heart. This helped me to fully immerse myself in the visual language of the land. I soaked in the shapes, forms, and colours of our mountains, lakes, and coastline, reinterpreting them in the paint. As I watched the paintings emerge and leave my studio to join homes and collections of art lovers, I finally felt the connection. I became a part of this land. I belonged.
The current phase of my journey deals with responsibility. At first glance, my paintings celebrate the natural beauty of Western Canada. But they also bring up its pain-points and fragility. I am using the visual language the landscape has taught me, to converse with it. While in awe of what it says to me, a new question arises these days: Can these places be saved?
This will be a continuous project as I keep discovering locations that beg this question and making paintings that express my deepest feelings for this good land.
Biography: Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki is an award-winning Canadian landscape painter based in Port Moody, British Columbia, where she emigrated from Serbia in 1994. Although art was her first and true love, the challenging reality of her native country made her choose education in science. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and pursued a Hi-Tech career while studying and making art part-time. Tatjana is presently a full-time painter with a passion for the west coast and mountains.
Tatjana is a Past President, Senior Signature Artist (SFCA), and Honorable Lifetime Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Her paintings have been exhibited, collected, and represented by art galleries since 2005.