Nada Rudan is most relaxed when portray, a talent she found on the age of 87 and culminating this summer time in an exhibition of her paintings – to mark her 100th birthday.
Bosnian native Rudan says she began to color at a late age to maintain herself busy and now finds the times are sometimes too brief to slot in the whole lot she deliberate to do. Her day by day routine is to color for 3 hours within the morning and two hours within the afternoon, when she is at house.
“I do not know what boredom means, I do not know what despair means, I all the time discover one thing to do,” she says.
Her unbiased spirit, good well being and love of journey assist.
After her exhibition in Sarajevo in late June, Rudan left for a month’s vacation on the Adriatic coast after which travelled on to Germany the place her daughter lives.
“I’m decided to not grow to be a burden to my youngsters,” provides the mom of two, grandmother of three and nice grand mom of 4 youngsters in her spacious house in central Sarajevo, surrounded by a few of her estimated 200 work.
“And I’m calm, I do not need to be nervous, I all the time assume first after which act,” says Rudan, who made a residing as a dressmaker, conserving on “chosen prospects” till she was 85.
“I’m nonetheless in an excellent well being, my fingers are steady, my eyes serve me nicely,” she says, including that she hardly ever wears glasses when portray.
She speaks fondly about frequent travels with her youngsters and grandchildren over the previous a long time. After her husband died in 1999, Rudan visited the United States, central America and quite a few European international locations, and people journeys impressed lots of her work, corresponding to a volcano in Hawaii or pyramids in Mexico.
She visited Hollywood on the age of 95, and was allowed to enter the theatre the place the Academy Awards ceremony takes place. “That was such a deal with!”
Rudan likes to color nature most of all and makes use of acrylic colors “as a result of they do not scent”.
She considers herself an “beginner” moderately than a “true artist”, however may be very proud that every one her household, mates and neighbours got here to her exhibition.
“You should be optimistic in life and hope for the perfect, there’ll all the time be an answer,” says Rudan, who survived each World War Two and the 1992-1995 siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb forces. – Reuters
