Describing his work, Dejan explains: "I see my painting as simply portraying everyday surroundings from my own point of view. At times it is also a way to give a hidden emotional world a material existence." His paintings portray small dramatic stories…presenting human weaknesses, fears and hidden fantasies. Dejan presents us with a vision of worlds, which engage the unconscious mind, and take us beyond physical reality.

 

Master of Time

The scenery in Dejan’s paintings is a mixture of the surreal and imaginative relationship of objects, characters and hidden emotions. Dejan explain his style of painting like this: “If I have to characterize my art, the closest that I could come up with is: the dream like state of the sub-conscious imagination.”

Having had no formal art training, he had to teach himself through exploration and experimentation. When he realized that he was more interested in the metaphysical point of view, he started researching the painting techniques of artists such as Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, René Magritte, Vojo Stanic, Sergei Aparin, etc.

Dejan states: “There isn’t a formal art thought driving my artistic decisions. I just do what feels intuitively right. It’s all about putting the time, effort and passion into creative efforts that makes the entire process successful. I think there are many ways to arrive…eventually… at the same place.”