When she lacks inspiration, Antea Delpin goes to stay on an island.
It is from nature, the sea, the hills, Velebit mountain, the salty air and everything that surrounds her here that she draws inexhaustible inspiration for creating her works of art - paintings, mosaics, jewelry, sculptures, and all other types of art and design.
An eternal inspiration in her work is the sea and its movement in the form of waves. The movement of the sea and waves leaves artistic traces on the sea reef and shore, and shapes her favorite found materials - driftwood. The beauty of the stone and the sea is timeless, one could sit and daydream for hours, absorbing the smell of salt and surrendering to the meditative effect of the waves.
She likes to observe how the color of the sea changes in different weather conditions, and how each time of day brings a new tone on the sea canvas. The rippling of the sea under night lighting is a particularly beautiful sight.
Winter trips to the sea are special to her, when everything is calm and peaceful, when your fingers freeze while you try to catch some squid with various techniques from the boat and the shore.
Every trip to the sea by boat is inspiring, because if she is not fishing, then she is enjoying and meditating with the sounds of the waves, the breeze and the gentle rocking.
Through this kind of sea meditation, she comes up with various ideas for creation, paintings that she could paint and colors that she would use pass through her head. This is how the first pictures of coral reefs and various marine organisms were created.
In addition to the sea side of the story, she draws inspiration from other aspects of nature. She admires the shapes and colors that nature itself creates, the way trees twist and intertwine, adapting with their strength to the terrain on which they grow. Impressive are the thousand-year-old olive trees, the shape of their trunks, and the bark of the tree, the entirety of which looks like the most complex sculptural relief.
