ABOUT
Painter Jože Šajn was born in Knežak in 1936. He graduated in Koper and worked as an art teacher at the elementary school in Ilirska Bistrica for eighteen years. He was then granted the status of a freelance artist. He has had more than a hundred solo exhibitions at home and abroad. His art can be found in countless private art collections all over the world. He lives and creates in Ilirska Bistrica.
"From the very beginning, my artistic path has been set as a challenge opposite the established path that leaned on institutions and authorities. I listened to my inner voice and a feeling that told me what I could do from the inside, from the purest spring of my soul. My helpers have been nature, galleries, books and, above all, laborious but joyful creation. They have showed me the way. Nature and man have always been the objects of my interest."
Jože Šajn
