Transparencies
Translucence of infinity and eternal light. Life.
Her earlier works, which were mainly paintings, feature light peering through the background, a fundamental characteristic of her art: light emanating from beneath a surface.

More recently, however, this translucence stems from the whiteness of paper, which she uses as her main base.
Her desire to achieve infinity shines through the imaginary backgrounds of her works.

To her, art is a special revelation of shapes from the real substantive world that we perceive only fleetingly.
She repeatedly selects and depicts scenes from nature or her studio. She observes nature in its primeval state.
However, to her, framing is always crucial. All of her works are meticulously framed in order to facilitate a thorough observation of form. Shapes have always played a vital role in her work, first in her paintings and then in her drawings.
And her drawings have become a diary of sorts for her observations of plants and other objects in her studio; she sketches their outlines, leaving out their surfaces in order to replace them with the whiteness of the paper used as the medium.

Although her earlier paintings tend to hide some subtle light beneath the surface, light takes centre stage in her more recent works.

The drawings she has completed lately focus on contours, but right there in the middle of it all is, in fact, her wish to achieve the one and only light that gives life.

Although the world of people and shapes is rather simple, it is never simplistic. Brišnik Remec recreates this to perfection by depicting things we always see, but rarely take the time to observe or consider. The substantive world forms part of our existence and the author presents it in every colour imaginable. The beauty of her art lies in her unlimited freedom to work with just about anything she sees. Her freedom is expressed through the colours she selects: and their identities gradually become her own. They reflect her existence and desire to experience the world in a different and better way.

Ida Brišnik Remec is an observer; she creates shapes, colours and scenes from nature with light shining through. The lively character of her depictions is given new life in new objects, the shapes of plants and her perception of their form and colour. She turns their colours into new hues. The scene becomes her vision of a new multicolour design with a fresh character, only to demonstrate her perception of what she sees as a world that has just been reborn. The completely different colour scheme used gives them a fresh essence and character, which metaphorically means a better world. This is what she depicts with her brushstrokes and colours.

A light, which seems like it should be eternal, shines beneath the surface of her black pencil drawings. Ida Brišnik Remec is constantly creating light.

—Miloš Bašin

Ida Brišnik Remec was born on 17 September 1941 in Maribor. After finishing classical gimnazija, she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana where she graduated in 1964 with Prof Gabriel Stupica. While studying at the Academy, she met Marjan Remec, whom she married in 1963. The two have lived in Maribor since 1964. In the period 1964–1975 she taught art at the Angel Besednjak Primary School and the Upper Secondary School for Pre-school Teacher Assistants. She and her husband joined the Slovenian Fine Arts Society and the Maribor Fine Arts Society in 1966. From 1975 and up until her retirement in 1997 Brišnik – Remec worked as a freelance artist painting, teaching at the People's University, and working on public projects (tapestries, stain-glass windows). She often held joint exhibitions with her husband and took part in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad. She lives in Maribor.