My studio is committed to providing exceptional fine art + portraiture, custom illustration & design, emphasizing the importance of involving my patrons throughout the creative process.

Deeply inspired by the human form, consciousness, synesthesia, intuition, metaphor, paradox, and the cosmos; self-taught artist Niki Eliza Ruža allows herself to explore color, light, line, and composition in ways she can’t in more traditional art.

"I love not knowing exactly where the piece is going and instead letting it guide me."

Accidentally discovering her talents in 2012 with her national award-winning piece "Smile for the Rhino", the desire to create art that she attained from being "a perpetual student of experience”, soon became an unyielding obligation to explore her artistic voice. Her art is a highly-personal reflection of herself as much as it is of the world around her, through her Eye.

In 2020, Ruža has heeded the call back to her roots as a soul and as a co-creator. She attempts to convey that newfound vision through her art, transmuting her cumulative lifetime experiences from the well of the myriad layers of her inner sanctuary.

A synesthete, Ruža incorporates her background in music and writing to evoke every sensation & perception leading up to her present moment experience, experimenting with mixed media and photography.

With an affinity for capturing the nuances of the essence of a subject in portraiture, or stimulating subconscious thought forms and imaginations through eclectic optical illusions, Ruža is fascinated by the odd cohesiveness of paradox and pattern, capturing a weave of inner experience, as well as outer reality; pouring herself into every piece with exceptional precision and heart. Marrying realism with etherealism, her work is a totally intuitive, physical manifestation of the ever-evolving, inner mechanism of creative consciousness.

A Silver Knight Nominee, Marion Award, Regional Golden Key Winner, and Silver Key Winner of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Competition at the National Level, Ruža was selected out of thousands of submissions from across the nation and was invited to New York City's Carnegie Hall to be presented the winners' awards by actress Meryl Streep.

Ruža’s exhibited her color pencil drawing "Smile for the Rhino", including other pieces, at the Pérez Art Museum (formerly known as the Miami Art Museum). She was also one of the five selected for the finals in the American Visions Competition. An article written about her work, “How Quarantine Has Affected Young Artists With Nicole Valmana" was published on Florida State University’s HerCampus.com, the #1 online global community for college women. She attended the renowned Design Architecture Senior High (DASH) in Miami’s Design District.

Ruža’s goal as an artist is for her work to expand and evolve beyond her own preconceived limitations; and to touch the hearts and minds of many who come across it.

If you would like to find out more about my process, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Blessings and appreciation,

Ruža, a Rose Rising