MIROSLAV POPOVIC was born on 1949. in Tesli? (BiH).He has received two years from Technology Faculty in Banja Luka. He started with amateur painting at 1973. but from 1990. He dedicated himself entirely to the art. He works and lives in Teslic. Beside a huge number of group exhibitions he had nine independent exhibitions in area of Yugoslavia and in Netherlands. First success he had with coloured pencil media and oil painting. For the last ten years he has been researding a specific kind of painting media using leaf prints (simple and capillary phytoprinting in acrylic). He has developed the associable type of painting based on Rorscach inkblot desings and figures made of plastic foil. His knowledge of painting he shares with a group of children and young people in his own studio. The group consists of twenty students. Several of them has continued their education on the universities of Banja Luka and Viena