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Incredibly here was a budding artist right under our noses. The son of our neighbour brought up by his grandparents, father and uncle in a small hillside village. At the age of 6 using ordinary crayons which we gave him he drew a house, not just a box with a roof, two windows and a door but a level of complexity associated with someone much more mature. Fortunately his school teachers recognised that his talent needed to be encouraged to flourish and he was guided to the high school in Uzice where he was mentored by his teacher Biljana Kovacevic. She similarly saw his potential talent and helped to place him in Trebinje Arts Faculty in BiH, an outreach of Sarajevo University where he is now in his last year mastering many elements of the art world and torn between the desire to work in three dimensions whilst continuing with his portraiture work at which he excels.

 

We first encouraged Darko to spend part of his summer break from Trebinje on the Breg effectively in an uninhibited workspace where he could gain work experience. We helped him with assistance to master new tools including electric drills, angle grinders and a chain saw working predominantly in wood. In 2019 we walked through a part of the woodland on the hill which we had ironically purchased from his family (our neighbours) some years earlier. A few feet up the trunk of a mature beech tree was a burr, examining it together the idea of a living carving was discussed. Over the ensuing weeks 'SNOWY OWL' emerged. It now sits in the woodland along a part of the curving stone path handsomely lit and at times even drawing the attention of our indigenous barn owls.