Janez Repnik was born on December 19, 1968 in Slovenj Gradac. He started painting in his childhood, first under the watchful eye of his father, a legend of Slovenian self-made painters, but later he embarked on an independent painting journey. Today, he is a well-established painter who can be placed alongside the best self-made Slovenian painters without hesitation. He lives and works on Muta. Janez Repnik devotes himself exclusively to social issues within the framework of genre motifs with the basic content of suffering. The artist often deals with his poignant reflections on common human suffering from a religious point of view. The expressively deformed human bodies, dressed in the peasant's simple crumpled clothes, are gnarly articulated and resemble uprooted roots from which all life juices have just been drained. The eyeballs are bordered by heavily accentuated fish-shaped eyelids, which can perhaps be interpreted in terms of the Christian ichthys symbol (IHS). At the same time, strong and elongated noses, which together with the eyes form the shape of a cross, draw attention, long suffering.