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Iva Troj AllTheAnimals2_MMedia on Canvas_62x91Iva Troj AllTheAnimals2_MMedia on Canvas_62x91
All the Animals II, Pastel charcoal, ink acrylic, oil, gold leaf, glazes on canvas 62 x 91 cm.
Iva Troj Diptych_Bride2_Night to Day_Day to Night_44x96eaIva Troj Diptych_Bride2_Night to Day_Day to Night_44x96ea
Bride Diptych II - Left: Night To Day, Right: Day to Night, Pastels, gold leaf, oil and glazes on canvas 44 x 96 cm. each
Iva Troj SleepsWithAnythingButLove_MMediaonCAnvas_61x91Iva Troj SleepsWithAnythingButLove_MMediaonCAnvas_61x91
Sleeps with Anything But Love, Pastel, charcoal, ink, acrylic, oil, gold leaf, glazes on canvas 61 x 91 cm.
Iva Troj Dancer Series IV Pastel, paint acrylic, gold leaf, Pencil on Canvas 60 x 90 cm.Iva Troj Dancer Series IV Pastel, paint acrylic, gold leaf, Pencil on Canvas 60 x 90 cm.
Dancer Series IV, Pastel, paint acrylic, gold leaf, pencil on canvas 60 x 90 cm.
Iva Troj KnowYourPlace_mmdeia on Canvas_100x88Iva Troj KnowYourPlace_mmdeia on Canvas_100x88
Know Your Place, Inks, oil pastels, acrylics, varnish on canvas 88 x 100 cm.
Iva Troj Bride_Diptych_SensitivetoLight_MixedMediaONCanvas_100x50eaIva Troj Bride_Diptych_SensitivetoLight_MixedMediaONCanvas_100x50ea
Bride Series - Diptych I Left; 'Sensitive to Light' Right: 'Wind', Pastels, charcoal, ink, acrylic and glazes on canvas 100 x 50 cm. each
Night Armour Pastel, Oil, Gold Leaf on Canvas 47 x 111 cm.Night Armour Pastel, Oil, Gold Leaf on Canvas 47 x 111 cm.
Night Armour, Pastel, oil and gold leaf on canvas 47 x 111 cm.
Iva Troj All The Animals I, Pastels, acrylic, oil and glazes on canvas 17 x 22 cm.Iva Troj All The Animals I, Pastels, acrylic, oil and glazes on canvas 17 x 22 cm.
All The Animals I, Pastels, acrylic, oil and glazes on canvas 17 x 22 cm.

Iva Troj creates fine art pieces which seamlessly merge Renaissance aesthetics and techniques with post-modern praxis. Her intensely detailed images achieve astonishing tricks of light and shade, as practiced by the great masters while incorporating dreamlike scenes which challenge cultural norms. Exhausted by a society in which women often feel vulnerable, threatened, or powerless, Troj recasts the fairer sex as powerful creatures, freed from the oppressive male gaze and placed within Edenic settings where they can revel in their own beauty and potential. Blending abstraction with figuration, the natural world with the urban landscape, dream with reality, Troj’s breathtakingly beautiful artworks achieve something truly unique, both in terms of aesthetics and concept.

The painting technique she uses resembles the Flemish method of layering thin veneers of paint between layers of varnish. The first layer is usually done using pencils, pastels and varnish. After that she paints a lighter layer with acrylics and finishes with a couple of thicker layers using a combination of mediums, often acrylics and oils, but sometimes gold leaf and inks. Her canvases are often polished between the layers to create the smooth surface typical for her works

“In many ways, I am what you get when you throw ancient Sakar Mountain wisdom failing to adapt to totalitarian ideas right into the pits of post-industrial capitalism. My grandmother’s village used to be in the no man’s land surrounding the Turkish and Greek/Bulgarian border during the communist regime. It used to be totally isolated from the industrial world and there was no school or a library (or pollution). And somehow my grandma knew what Wabi-sabi was. I asked her about it and she told me a story about a lion tamer. Beauty is ”imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete,” she said. I am not sure how I came to find the clues to Japanese culture. She never talked about China or Japan, “intimacy”, or appreciation of the ”ingenuous integrity of natural objects”. That was not how she spoke. Instead of using fancy words she showed me things and explained their beauty to me. Her house and her garden were full of evidence of beautiful imperfection.”

In 2016, Troj was named Contemporary Art Excellence Artist of the Year and, in 2013, was the winner of the Towry Best of East England Award. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently in San Francisco, Los Angeles Tokyo and London.

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