Jovica Dejanovic was born in 1957 in Vranje, Serbia.
He graduated from the Academy of fine Arts in Prishtina, department of painting in the class of Professor Nusret Salihamidzic in 1980. He has been a member of AFAS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia) since 1985

"...From the cycle "Suffering", through "Soot and Gilt" and up to the cycle of landscapes and "Emblems and Symbols", and landscapes materialized, there is a need to achieve the structure of palimpsest by layering chromatic structures from which all tragic complexity of the destiny of his people can be read, a need to reactivate the myth of the quest for a transcendent land, of the inevitability of destiny and wandering through the land of darkness towards a faint light of the paradise lost. Searching through painting for the sources of his own destiny shows, in its structure, the dramatic clash of the opposites of the world in which it takes place. The meeting of good and evil, life and death, presents a form of authentic visualization of the heterogeneous reality lived to the fullest by the artist. Achieving catharsis through the visualization of the epic of the tragic destiny of his people, he strives to point to the truth that an event never happens only once but is happening and will happen over and over again."
-Excerpt from the review of Srdjan Markovic, art historian

Prizes:
1982 Niksic, Purchase prize at Fourth September Salon of the Young
1989 Belgrade, Purchase prize, "Six centuries since Battle of Kosovo"
1989 Vranje, Audience award and second jury award on exhibition "ALL" (Artists of Vranje)

Zoran Petrusijevic - Zop was born in 1943 in Vranje. He earned his graduate and postgraduate degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in the class of Ljubica Sokic in 1968. He has been a member of AFAS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia) since 1972

"In numerous cases when modern styles predominate, Mr. Petrusijevic has a special place: his works present that essential link between the intimate and the open, the transparent and the hidden. His opus is distinctive enough to easily attract attention."
-Bratislav Ljubisic (from the book "The Blue Line of Perseverance")

"It is a performance realized through intense painting activity by means of achieving an adequate tone, brush stroke and carefully tended structure, which possesses the beauty and dazzle of a spectacle that captivates the viewer instantly."
-Excerpt from the review of Srdjan Markovic, art historian

"Those paintings are not contemplation, but an intense experience, conveyed as if in some sort of a tense game by controlled, but also at times by free brush strokes. They emanate some sort of childish purity, which entices us to enter the artist's world with our eyes open, only to discover too late that this spectacle for the eyes can also grip our heart."
-Ljiljana Petrusijevic

Prizes:
1974 Second AFAS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia) award for painting
Belgrade, Faculty of Fine Arts purchase prize
Belgrade, Jugoexport purchase prize
1997 Vranje, the first jury award at the Second New Year's Salon of the Gallery of National Museum

Natasa Dimitrijevic was born in 1979 in Vranje. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting, in the class of Professor Slobodan Roksandic in 2004. At the moment she is in the final year of her postgraduate studies, at the Department of Contemporary Mosaic and Wall Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in the class of Professor Djuro Radlovic

"...By displaying a bold and impulsive approach in her interest of study and her getting into methods of the painting process, Natasa Dimitrijevic has proved herself in outlined and demanding technical and compositional features of artistic works. Through the thematic repertoires of painting and mosaic, it became clear that her case is not only of being attached to a chosen repertoire of motives of South Serbia and the region of the South Balkans, but that her inclinations acquire some long-lasting quality in which technology formulas and the layers of European artistic expression are brought into connection with the isolated values of creating a world of its own. Her thematic solutions which evoke the expressivity of the coloration of the most significant legacy of early modern art in Serbia, break free towards productive display and the synthesis of compositional presentation, of both the artistic body of the program, and possible innovations.
-Nikola Suica, art historian

She took part in many international art colonies and group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad
In September 2006 she participated at 10th International Mosaic Congress of AIMC in Skopje, Macedonia

Dejan Trajkovic was born in 1966 in Prishtina. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Prishtina, Department of Painting, in the class of Professor Hilmija Catovic in 1993. He has been a member of AFAS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia) since 1999

"With this exhibit of paintings, Dejan Trajkovic presents himself as an artist of a distinctive sensibility who creates associative and totally abstract works. He creates a cycle of paintings with the theme of abstract scenery by expressing, by using art elements, mainly color, an intimate and private experience of nature governed by some magic, dreamy, enchanting quality. Those are not pictures of real places but are in fact memories of intimate impressions and emotional experience of the things he has seen. Striving to achieve autonomy in his painting, and consequently greater artistic freedom, he rid the painting of anything superfluous. The color dominates the painting and the artist uses it to solve aesthetic problems. The object is almost lost when this method of reducing is applied, but the associations of what has been seen are still there, although they are in the process of fading as well. That is why there are shapes that remind us of trees within the frame of a field abstractly painted, the tree being the carrier of a symbolic meaning, defining and explaining the very painting..."
-Excerpt from the review of Jelena Nicic, art historian, written for the exhibit "Trees"

Dragan Dejanovic was born in 1981 in Nis. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in 2000, and from the Faculty of Fine Arts, department of painting, in the class of Professor Djuro Radonjic in 2005 in Nis. He has been a member of AFAS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia) since 2006

"It is the very insistence upon association as the form of maintaining relationship with the world or, more precisely, as the form of its transfiguration, that represents the core around which Dragan Dejanovic builds his visual statement. It stands to reason that the whole visual apparatus of the painting is subjected to such a need of Mr. Dejanovic and it is based on a well-constructed intertwinement of lines pulled deep under the chromatic layer, on a broad, vigorous stroke of controlled inner expression, on collision of colors and meeting of various structures that range from careless brush strokes on the colored layer to the deliberated assembling of the enformel structure, the aim of which is to soften the chromatic outburst in the substance of the painting. Although it appears energetic and robust, this kind of painting actually involves, in its deeper layers, a delicately woven, precious lyric fiber which expresses the artist's intimate attitude to the world that surrounds him, his need to relate his own being to the landscape from which he transplants onto the whiteness of the canvas subtle lyric quivers that emerge at the moments when the profound calm of the artist's inner being merges with the primeval peace of nature."
-Excerpt from the review of Srdjan Markovic, art historian, written for the exhibit "Landscapes"