Books have long felt sacred to me: companions, keepsakes, and little worlds we can hold in our hands. My path to becoming an artist was not a straight one, but in many ways it was always leading me here.

I grew up in Croatia surrounded by a love of reading, language, and imagination. Later, I studied Spanish language and literature, which deepened my connection to storytelling and to the power words have to shape the way we see the world. When I moved to the United Kingdom in 2020, I carried that love with me, though I had not yet found the form it would take in my own creative life.

That changed when I discovered fore-edge painting, an old and almost forgotten art form in which a painting appears along the edges of a book’s pages. The moment I found it, something clicked. It felt like the perfect meeting place for everything I loved: literature, craftsmanship, beauty, and the quiet magic of art.

I began with very little, using improvised tools, a great deal of patience, and a deep desire to learn. One of my first painted books was The Hobbit, and when it sold for €50, it felt like a small but meaningful beginning. From there, what started as curiosity slowly became devotion. I kept painting, kept learning, and kept falling more deeply in love with the process.

Vision & Mission

Today, my work is inspired by the stories that have stayed with me through the years: folklore, Tolkien, Dune, Coraline, Supernatural, scripture, and many others. Every book I paint is my way of honouring the story it carries and giving it another life as an object of wonder.

At the heart of it all, this journey has been about preservation: preserving beloved stories, preserving beauty, and preserving a rare traditional craft by allowing it to speak to modern readers. My hope is that each piece feels like a little heirloom, something enchanted, personal, and alive, a reminder that even when a book is closed, there is still a hidden world waiting inside.