Sonja Kobrehel’s work in visual arts reflects the constant changes, experience in her personal life.
She is guided by her feelings, thoughts, dreams and visions.
The sources of her inspiration are many: an appreciation; She loves to look for traces of the people who came before and clues about what they did there and why.
Journeys are an integral part of the inspirations. Sonja is intrigued by the human cultural elements and visual stimulation that she encounters. She finds that every place and culture reveals its beauty to her in the everyday life.
Sonja likes to use symbols in her art work and creating personal iconography. The symbols are the clues to many aspects of her life, but her paintings usually start with a colour idea, than evolve into composition in which colour is the primary subject.
She works in collage, various media on paper and canvas, mixing everything possible together to bring it to others in a visual format. Much attention is given to the surface texture adding different materials, carving, scratching, gluing…creating visual dialog.
Sonja completes her work using drawing techniques and whatever else it takes to communicate her intended vision.