Stanka Golob, born in 1952, is devoted to painting since 1981. Since 1985 she has regularly studied in the framework of the Public Fund for Cultural Activities at various academic painters, sculptors and pedagogues: Tone Rački, Dušan Fišer, Dragica Čadež Lapajne, Joseph Muhovič, Jani Dolenc, Boris Y. Božič, Lucjan Lavrenčič and Jože Dakskofler and others.
Her long informal education culminated with studies at the School of Drawing and Painting - Arthous - college of Visual Arts in Ljubljana, where she graduated in 2012 with the thesis entitled Sandy illusion - the impact of different thicknesses and natural colours of sand on the illusion of space on a two-dimensional painting surface.
Since 1994 she intensively explores the effects of sand of natural colours and different thicknesses in art. She uses only the sand collected in the Slovenian rivers, mountains and quarries. All the painting surface is covered with sand, this is the reason for naming such creations sand pictures. Her artwork was initially black and white, but later she began to use sands of other colours. As she is still researchig this interesting painting medium, the motifs and basis are very perse.
She had also participated in international artist colonies and received several awards. Many art historians and artists wrote about her work: Cene Avguštin, Mirko Juteršek, Damir Globočnik, Joško Vetrih, Janez Kavčič, Janez Šter, Monika Ivančič Fajfar, Anamarija Stibilj Šajn, Nataša Kovšca, Tanja Cigoj, Jana Dolenc, Maja Jerman Bratec, Gregor Maver, Mateja Kobal, Petra Vencelj and others. In early 2014, at the twentieth anniversary of painting with sand, she had a retrospective exhibition of her works at the Gallery of Riko Debenjak in Kanal.
Since 1997 she conducts workshops on painting with sand for children, students and people with disabilities in Slovenia and abroad.
Her studio and gallery is located in the west side of village Grahovo at Baci in the Municipality of Tolmin.
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Studio and gallery. Foto: Ivan Merljak
Studio and gallery. Foto: Stanka Golob
