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Dragan Sekaric Shex

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Toronto Star: Home is where the art is

An Etobicoke bungalow is rebuilt into a studio and gallery for the artist who is also the renovation architect.

Dragan Sekaric Shex needed a vast and spacious area to both create his evocative oil paintings, and display the large works.

The space he found was close to home — in fact, it was his home. Together with was wife Gordana Yovanovich, Shex created his studio and gallery in his own redesign of the couple’s modest bungalow.

“The angle of the countertop is designed to draw people in,” says Gordana Yovanovich, with husband Dragan Sekaric Shek, of their kitchen’s Carrara marble island counter. (Bernard Weil/Toronto Star)
The couple’s home now covers 3,500 square feet, with five bedrooms and five bathrooms on two storeys. (Bernard Weil/Toronto Star)
Artist Dragan Sekaric Shex adjusts his painting in the front hall of his home. ‘A painting can look amazing in one light but has to be viewed in others,’ he says. (Bernard Weil/Toronto Star)
Secondary bedrooms are used as gallery space for Shex’s paintings, which include his signature sfumato technique as well as abstracts. (Bernard Weil/Toronto Star)

[…] “Dragan put his heart and soul into this house,” says Yovanovich. “He needs large spaces to create his art and our home gives him the freedom and scope to do that.”

Shex paints in his airy, light-filled studio on the main floor, but his art — including canvases of 183-by-112 centimetres — fills the entire home that serves as a functioning gallery, allowing guests and visitors to see how a work might look, say, over a sofa or by a window.

[…] Flow of light and movement were important elements in Shex’s design; they include the 20-foot ceiling in the front foyer. On a smaller scale, but with the same intent, is the wider first step that juts out from the others on the staircase: “That will draw you, take you upstairs,” Shex says of the climb that leads to his gallery.[…] Read full article at Toronto Star

The living room serves as studio for artist Dragan Sekaric Shex, who uses a palette knife to create his oil canvanses instead of a paintbrush. (Bernard Weil/Toronto Star)

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25 Lothian Ave, Toronto, M8Z 4J9
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