Ana Sneeringer is a Slovenian self-taught artist who has embraced the freedom of being self-taught. Before she began her art career, she was engaged for ten years in documentary journalism. Having realized her passion for drawing and painting while moving around the world over the last decade, she started her artistic career a bit later in life. Having no professional art training gives her the encouragement and freedom to simply create from her heart instead of trying to find a balance between educational training and personal expressions.
She started painting in the Dominican Republic. Her art there was a mixture of emotional cultural shock expressed through abstraction, but shortly after, she found herself back to creating portraits, which she is now known for. Since then, Ana has been fascinated with the attitude a woman’s face conveys and has made that her primary subject matter.
In 2018, she moved with her family to India, where she currently lives and works. Her art has been exhibited internationally in the United Arab Emirates, India, the United States, Italy, and Canada. She has been featured by All She Makes and Create! Magazine, and most recently was one of five Slovenian contemporary women artists selected by LIDL Slovenia and Europa Donna for a project with the aim of spreading awareness about breast cancer through their art.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I paint portraits of ladies with attitude. My art is a reflection and an expression of my own attitude towards life situations where I find myself in the exact moment. My work speaks the language of the country I live in.
Projects
- CULTIVATION"CULTIVATION" - the process of acquiring quality of life Cultivation of mind. Our great mistake in life education is that we worship book-learning the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory like that but we don't cultivate the mind by doing this. Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as the food to the body. In this series I am forcing myself way further then simply portraying the attitude trough facial expression. I am searching for meaning and purpose in life wh
- SCARVES FOR LIFEEach of us is unique. There is no one else in the world, quite like us. We are the only ones who can do the extraordinary things we do. And what we do is unique. We may not win outstanding awards or public acclaim for our deeds, but we make the world a better place because of them. My deed to myself and you are following my passion, which I can share with you. Sharing Scarves for life are art and design of my memories & observations I’ve transferred on textiles. I developed this project pu