Janez Slabe is a Slovenian creator in the field of visual art, music and poetry. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
He began his artistic journey as a child by watching his uncle who painted plein air. As an adult he joined a group of amateur watercolorists in his home town Vrhnika, but also learned drawing and painting from various academic painters such as prof. M.Sc.Mladen Jernejec, dean of College of Visual Arts and Tone Rački, art mentor at the Public Fund for Cultural Activities and many others.
Already at the beginning of his art studies, the College of Visual Arts in Ljubljana, awarded him recognition. Recently he graduated in painting from College of Visual Arts (Arthouse) under the mentorship of dr. Kiki Klimt, Master of Fine Arts, painter, graphic designer and illustrator.
On the other hand as a student of logotherapy he cooperated with a psychiatrist and logotherapist, dr. Cvijeta Pahljina. On her initiative he conducted art workshops at summer camps in the Žička Kartuzia and International Logotherapy Symposia in Slovenia.
He exhibits as part of the Logatec Society of Painters and works in a group of watercolorists under the mentorship of Petar Lazarević. He had also three solo exhibitions and 30 group exhibitions. He was selected few times in International Watercolor Festival Castra, which takes place in Slovenia. Recently he became the world selected artist for 2024 Exibition in Italy and USA in the FabrianoInAcquarello, the International Congress Meeting.
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Janez Slabe je slovenski ustvarjalec na področju likovne umetnosti, glasbe in poezije. Diplomiral je iz slikarstva.
Svojo umetniško pot je začel kot otrok z opazovanjem strica slikarja, ki je slikal plein air, na prostem. Kot odrasel se je pridružil skupini ljubiteljskih akvarelistov v domačem kraju na Vrhniki, risanja in slikanja pa se je učil tudi pri različnih akademskih slikarjih, kot so prof. mag. Mladen Jernejec, dekan visokošolskega zavoda – Šole za risanje in slikanje, ter pri Tonetu Račkiju, likovnemu mentorju na Javnem skladu RS za kulturne dejavnosti in pri številnih drugih.
Že na začetku študija slikarstva mu je Šola za risanje in slikanje v Ljubljani podelila priznanje. Pred kratkim je tam diplomiral iz slikarstva pod mentorstvom dr. Kiki Klimt, mag. likovnih umetnosti, slikarke, grafične oblikovalke in ilustratorke.
Po drugi strani pa je kot študent logoterapije sodeloval s psihiatrinjo in logoterapevtko dr. Cvijeto Pahljina. Na njeno pobudo je vodil likovne delavnice na poletnih taborih v Žički kartuziji in mednarodnih simpozijih logoterapije v Sloveniji.
Razstavlja v okviru Društva likovnikov Logatec in deluje v skupini akvarelistov pod mentorstvom Petra Lazarevića. Imel je tudi tri samostojne in 30 skupinskih razstav. Večkrat je bil izbran na mednarodnem festivalu akvarela Castra, ki poteka v Sloveniji. Nedavno je postal svetovno izbran umetnik za razstavo 2024 v Italiji in ZDA na mednarodnem kongresnem srečanju FabrianoInAcquarello.
