In a Blue Dream

After returning from India in 2020, Branka felt the need to finally rest after rushing around the world, and that meant returning to places and addresses that are close to her and that have constantly inspired her with their beauty. It was no coincidence that she spent moments of solitude and meditation with the poetry of Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale, who scans human anxiety and the misfortune of modern man who sees salvation in escape... The landscapes that Branka paints are an expression of a nostalgic feeling, as if beloved places were emerging from the darkness of the past, islands with nameless bays and vegetation of miraculous white trees that symbolically sing about a different spiritual life. Once interesting landscapes of contrasting acrylic colors, now swim in a gloomy atmosphere around the island, revealing through the mists, in never-before-seen bays, distant houses, miraculous trees and the polyphonic dark splendor of the play of contrasts of the blue-gray and green-blue color of the sea. Using the example of a visit to her beloved island, Branka Ridicki managed to present a now open lyrical approach to abstract painting with a complex understanding of reality with deposits of memories and emotions.

                                                                                                                                                                                     Tonći Šitin, PhD