A new exhibition has opened at Haddenham Arts Centre featuring the work of artist Jelena Lukić.

Influenced by her parents’ Slavic roots, Jelena weaves the vibrant colours and folklore of their history into her art.

Birds, animals and human forms are surrounded by plant imagery. Painting in oils or acrylic paint and digitally, she layers and blends methods and processes.

Drawing on the poetic work of Joan Miro, Jelena enjoys the relationship of shape and colour in his paintings and sculptures.

Exploring shapes, colour, paint, collage, printed image, relationship and language, her inspiration comes from emotion.

She enjoys the work of Ilija Bosilj, a Serbian outsider painter of peasant origin.

Jelena said: "The colours and images in his work contain sense of story often with religious themes which resonate with me, reminding me of my childhood.

"Much of his work dealt with religion and folk legends and two-headed and two-faced creatures are a common theme.

"These themes of two-headed and two-faced creatures have surfaced in my work.

"I admire how Bosilj plays with perspective creating a flat two-dimensional world often inhabited by men and demons, snakes, fish, anthropomorphic creatures, and spacemen."

The exhibition is open until Tuesday May 30 and is open from 10am to 4pm, and entry is free.

The arts centre, which is just off the village High Street, is also home to six artists’ studios, a fully licensed café and gardens.

For full details of what’s on visit www.haddenhamartscentre.org.uk