Artworks from Mila Veljac'a Plaickner

Portraits full of character in oil technique

Her paintings, full of character, fascinate with multifaceted and symbolically abstract pictorial compositions. A mixture of formal perfection and seemingly natural elegance as well as creative interest characterise Mila Plaickner's works. Her style is unmistakable: formally strict and in perfect composition, she directs the viewer's gaze to human episodes of everyday life. This interested look at her contemporaries connects many of her works.

Career of the artist

The trained artist was born in Croatia in 1959 and now lives and works freelance in Vorarlberg, Austria. She successfully completed her art studies from 1979 to 1982 and has since been intensively involved with figurative drawing and abstract painting. From the beginning, she quickly advanced to become a sought-after representative of the "New Figuration". Her art is authentic and opportune, and the demand for her works and art projects has been constant since 1995.

As early as 1999, Mila Plaickner was asked to teach at various academies in Austria and Germany. The artist pursues this activity as a lecturer in addition to her everyday work in the studio. The freelance border crosser moves primarily between figurative and abstract forms of expression. Her preoccupation with art is guided by the process of creation itself and is mainly intuitive. In doing so, she focuses her working method in the expressive and gestural style. Mila's works have approaches from the figurative, the representational and the abstract. Plaickner's oil paintings often show unfinished accents and details, which she deliberately leaves to make the creative process visible to the viewer.

Beauty and chance as the most important stylistic devices

In her painting, she experiences, in her own words, an intense sensual experience, while motifs emerge in layers and a spatial allocation becomes visible in stages. The drawing itself, the stroke - has a special meaning for the artist. "It is a constant immersion, in the self-discovery of personal truth. A fascination that won't let me go."