Colour and Composition: The Art Portfolio of Jarmila Kostliva
Jarmila Kostliva creates abstracted artworks that focus on texture, colour, and composition, while drawing parallels to human and other biological forms. Jarmila tends to work in a range of mixed media, including both oil and acrylic paint, producing finished products that are striking in their mysteriousness.
In our previous feature of Jarmila’s biomorphic, tactile imagery, we looked at the way the artist utilizes abstract forms to create the impressions of figures. It’s interesting to look at the artist’s recent works in contrast to her works dating back to 1995 – the artist’s older works lean far more into traditional abstraction and cubism, though interestingly many seem to utilize the same colour palette as Jarmila’s most recent paintings.
Jarmila’s works also reference science, technology, history and the artist’s studies of primitive cultures. In her work, the artist seeks to understand and examine human existence through both a physical and a metaphysical lens.
Breakfast at Sequoias, acrylic and acrylic collage on canvas