Artist Profile

Fortuna Lazar is a visual artist from Lendava, Slovenia, whose practice centers on portraiture, combining drawing and painting techniques including pencil, ink, gouache, watercolor, and acrylic. Often beginning with portrait photography as a foundation, she transforms her subjects through expressive mark-making and layered techniques into works that possess renewed identity and emotional depth, reflecting her own inner world. Her portraits capture intimate and evocative details, conveying the vulnerability, fluidity, and transparency inherent to watercolor and mixed media. Suggestive of faces recalled from memory, the works create a sense of familiarity while exploring the emotional complexity of human experience. Moving between melancholy and dreamlike vitality, Fortuna Lazar’s art reveals a rich spectrum of feeling, inviting viewers into contemplative encounters with the human spirit. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Maribor, Slovenia.