Tornado, Abstract Acrylic Painting With Original Crystal Swarovski (2012) Painting by Dianno A. Jakelj

was born 26. october 1972 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He grew up in Jesenice. Till the age of 21 he was a hockey player and active sportsman. He loved to draw since he was a child, especially cowboys, Indians, solders and other different images. He liked clear lines; sharpened images and that helped him to get knowledge of fine drawing. He didn't know, why this gift was born with him till he started a family. He was in business with creating working dresses and sell of the protective equipment for different professions. Then his daughter became very ill. Beside the health problems, she had a grate artistic talent, so both he, and his wife started to create art with her. This was 16 years ago. The talent of the art creation was one of families’ bright points of life. At 2001 he and his wife invented the Foundation 4 Help 2 Children with the support and member sheep of the important people from hometown. Since than they are struggling hard to help mostly ill children and their families in different help needed areas from health, social care and education support.

Foundation in the fundraising is using the creativeness and knowledge, to produce the art products and realizes different unique ideas, because the donation support itself is very poor. In 2009 the foundation started to work with Swarovski Austrian crystals in the project ” Wipe the tear of ill little hero” and 2011 the foundation got the world charity license for crystal products ” Charity Jewelry & Products”. They are made with Swarovski elements. The volunteers are producing the jewelry as symbols of different kinds of help to ill children, T-shirts with the positive crystalized glamour inscriptions and painting artworks. Mentor for painting is the volunteer artist we are presenting.
Since his daughter got ill he was fighting inside with so many questions, feelings of joy in each little success of the daughter, feelings of sadness and pain. The thing that have brought to his life the most happiness was to create with a daughter, because this were their special times, filled with love, care, creativity, progress and hope. Joy in complete for all the family. One more member of the family came to their life and later the whole family was creating art till these days. In so plenty years, each one of them found its way to be creative. The youngest daughter is 13 now, she is very good photographer and enjoys in photo-shootings so much. The first-born likes to draw nature, flowers, acts, animals… so precise, that it seems sometimes that it is printed. Mother is creating love in different ways, telling stories over the paintings, as well as sadness in the eyes of her creatures. The paintings speak to teach. Finally the winner of the family contestants is the artist, from which the artworks we presents. All his life talented for the art, he newer saw as a boy perspective for quality living as the artist in the state we come from. In the years of creativity with the daughter, he started to bel...

• Nationality: SLOVENIA
• Date of birth : unknown date
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• Groups: Contemporary Slovenian Artists