Gregor
Pratneker

The painter Gregor Pratneker graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. With his outstanding artworks, he gained recognition in the international arena and has already been invited twice to the renowned Salon d'Automne at the Grand Palais in Paris.

"For Gregor Pratneker, nature is an artistic sanctuary. He is particularly fascinated by its lights and colours. With subtle interest, he follows ephemeral atmospheric feelings, the glow of awakening mornings, the radiant evenings, and the playful stroll of sunrays around dense woodlands. The intense light clarifies the forms and illuminates as well as amplifies the layers of colour. The artist's own expressive note also accentuates delicate tonal gradations and precious nuances. He forms his motifs with thoughtfully positioned layers and relaxed strokes that are spread out to the point of achieving the painterly dripping effect. Often he also brings people into his natural environments. /.../ In the pictorial field, he transforms the energy of nature into the power and wealth of visual life," the art critic Anamarija Stibilj Šajn reflects on the artist's work.