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Genc Gjoka Bio
Gjoka Genc
Born 1955 and Raised in Kosovo, Gjoka Genc schooled in the nations capital Pristina. Studying Fine Arts and gaining a degree in 1983 through Pristina Art University.
The son of an artistic father, he has known expressive creativity all his life.
Taught to paint directly from life and to always be inspired by the world around him, Gjoka favours acrylic on canvas and oil pastels as a medium however has a prolific collection including charcoals and mixed medias.
His intuitive, imaginative abstracts we feature here are an example of of an artist who sees beyond what others may see before them.
Translating into highly colour charged, dramatic modern landscapes of exaggerated form and movement, thus very interesting for both the artist and the viewer.
A life spent between his homeland of Albania, Netherlands has been his adopted home since fleeing the Kosovo crisis of 1999.
Here in Rotterdam his home since, he is an in demand much admired portrait Artist across the holiday season.
Creating portraits and caricatures in oil pastel for visitors and his long term collectors, of which he has now painted some second and third generations of the same family members.
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Kosovo once his home, is a special place for him now especially since the recent passing of his dear mother. In Kosovo he takes a break from portraiture and express freely. These rare visits allow valued time to relax and as he says to “paint for himself”.
A prolific artist and loving parent to 3 wonderful children, it gives me great joy to bring to you a fraction of his creations, that which he has produced across a lifetime as a career artist. Unable to show the breadth of his works, he has painted many commissioned murals for commercial premises and featured his art on 3 D pieces such as urns and pottery.
Gjoka has shown in multiple exhibitions within the Baltics, Mediterranean and Europe. Most recently exhibiting October 2023 in Prisitina, “ xxxxxx” A framed expressive modern landscape in acrylic. He continues to participate in artist colonies of his close knit peers and symposiums. Recent years he visited Cyprus where the group of artists spent a week during 2022 immersed in the community of xxxxxx as a collective “artist colony”, culminating in each artist donating a work to the host.
He loves to paddle his canoe and uses a bicycle for transport like many in Europe and loves to swim calm waters any chance he has, as way to relax and stretch from hours consumed at the easel.
Gjoka visited Australia in 2014, where on a chance meeting whilst painting my grandsons portrait his intuitive gentle soul felt something within me as we spoke of art and drawing. His insight was to be my guide towards what I was obviously yearning for. His a mentorship was pivotal to my commencing sketching again. Culminating in me returning to my own creative expression and painting. For this and our enduring friendship I am forever grateful.
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We pay deepest respects to all Custodians of Country, of whom these lands belong. Especially the land and people of Gamilaraay where Liz was born, and Wiradjuri where Liz raised her children and the local Widgabul Wia-bul people of Bundjalung Nation, where Liz now lives and paints.
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