Ivana St. John has travelled a colourful road, experiencing the diversity of many countries and cultures. When she discovered Perth, Western Australia she made her home here, and drawing on the richness of her life experiences, she turned to the medium of visual art.

Ivana studied art in many of its diversified forms and for some time channelled all her energies into watercolours which complimented her fascination with West Australian flora. She studied an unusual technique developed by a West Australian artist and used this knowledge to create her own style so characteristic of all her work. Her first solo exhibition, ’Visually Intoxicating’, was staged at The Old Bakery on 8th Gallery in Maylands in 2000 and from there she has gone from strength to strength.

Always searching for new and challenging ways to express her passion with the life around her, Ivana studied the ‘chaos’ technique, which she found exhilarating. This innovative and exciting new medium suits Ivana’s vibrant mind and she draws energy from the remarkable shapes and forms that emerge from what we would see as a muddle of random markings on a canvas. Her ‘Art of Chaos’ exhibition in the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery in Fremantle in 2002 was a culmination of all that she poured into this new freedom of expression.

Ivana’s next solo exhibition ‘Dance of Imagination’ in 2004 presented both styles of her work from intricate, detailed watercolours to the boldest brush strokes of her new works.
Her 2006 solo exhibition ‘Beyond Chaos’ showed a new approach with the emergence of images decanted from her imagination using colours, textures and shapes to connect a story of awakening memories and feelings from a tapestry of her life experiences.

Inexhaustible imagination keeps Ivana’s artwork alive and she now invites you to view her website and browse the galleries of her favourite works.