The Ideal Society:  (Scroll down to see some of Slavka's paintings.)

Slavka Kolesar is a Canadian artist from Jaffray, BC.  She was born in 1974 of Russian immigrant parents both of whom were artists,  and so began playing with paint and pencils from a very young age.

 In 2001, Slavka travelled to India where she lived for one year in the rural village of Santiniketan near Calcutta.  She studied ancient Indian art and history at the Viswa Bharati University founded by the poet Rabindranath Tagore. She then spent three years exploring representational painting at the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto, while simultaneously earning her BA from the University of Toronto where she majored in visual studies and art history in 2006 .

 Slavka works with various media including paint, gold leaf, thread and fabric.  Her travel photographs are a source of inspiration for her paintings, along with traditional Russian folk painting which surrounded her throughout her childhood, forming a wellspring of colourful imagery she draws from and adapts into her own visual language. 

Slavka exhibited her paintings at the United Nations in NYC in 2004 and again in 2006,  and a series of six of her watercolours were issued as stamps by the UN in 2007.  Slavka has contributed watercolours for "El Àrbol de la Esperanza", a book of short stories in Spanish.

In Sept. 2007, Slavka will be moving to Montreal to study textile design at the Centre de Design & Impression Textile. 

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