"Kaleidoscope series"

Gloria Sellan is a visual artist born in Pula (Croatia). She moved to the island of Gotland (Sweden) in 2021. Gloria has an MA in Visual Art from the the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka (Croatia), and is specialized in printmaking and graphic arts. She has been actively practicing art for more than 15 years, and showed her works at over 40 exhibitions in Croatia and abroad.  In her practice she often uses different media and combines them to create a unique piece of art. 

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"Kaleidoscope" is a series of relief prints in color created by printing 32 lenoleum plates (each sized 20x20 cm) in different combinations. The series has originated between 2015 and 2022, and the first pieces were part of a solo exhibition entitled "Dialogue", held at the "Juraj Klovic" gallery in Rijeka (Croatia) in 2015.

The series is part of Gloria`s research on kaleidoscopic shapes (hence the series title) and the different ways of recreating them using tradional hand printing media. The colors and shapes she uses evoke the memories of childhood and the mesmerizing feeling of magic while looking through a kaleidoscope toy.