Sunday, March 22, 2009

Exhibition at Jadranka Pastries (Azra Brkan)


Azra Brkan is born in Zenica, I graduated from the University of Sarajevo.
My occupation for twenty years was teaching German as a second language, but besides teaching I was drawing and painting all that time.
Like most artists I started from early years and continued through all my life.
Painting for me is pure joy, passion and escape from everyday pressures. I express in my own way where I see beauty experimenting with different techniques, but drawing portraits seems to be my first true love.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Toronto SUN



Speaking of food, Jadranka Pastries in Etobicoke, specializes in
gorgeous, Viennese-style pastries and cakes at incredible prices, recently celebrated its fifth anniversary with a big, sweet pastry party and an expansion of their business. Brother-and-sister team of Vanja Ljuboje and Ljilja Jamakosmanovic -- whose grandparents were well-known pastry chefs back in their native Sarajevo -- celebrated the big event by expanding their little shop into an impressive, airy storefront operation with elegant artwork adorning one side of the store, and a sparkling dessert glass case brimming with mouth-watering treats on the other. In the five years the bakery has expanded, it's also grown to serve more than twenty specialty shops, supermarkets and restaurants throughout southwestern Ontario.