I was born in Belgrade, Serbia—a city layered with history, rhythm, and contradiction. It was there that I first fell in love with the language of visual expression, studying at the High School of Design and later at the College of Textile Design. Art was my first home, my quiet rebellion, my way of making sense of the world. And then, life took me elsewhere. For years, I traded brushstrokes for deadlines, stepping into the fast-paced world of media, where…
About the artist… Dessi Balinova has been creating art since her high school years. As an adult shegraduated as an Interior Designer and pursued a career in her field, while herpassion for creating art and painting persisted and has been developing those skillsover the years. Dessi uses expressively warm, bold, striking colours to help connectthe viewer with sense of vibrant life, everywhere they look. Her inspirations comefrom nature and every-day life. The subject matter helps her connect with thenatural world…
Art has been the defining force of my life. I see it everywhere. In lines and shapes, colours, and patterns. The majority of my life has been as a performing artist, a dancer and a dance teacher; however just as the performing arts requires an awareness and empathy for light and shade, space and colour, and sensitivity to expression and form, in directing my passion now to the visual arts as an abstract photographer and abstract painter, it is only…