About me and my work

It is difficult to define exactly what the central inspiration in my work is. Rather, it is about stylish, life-inspired motifs. Pregnancy, motherhood and breastfeeding are some of the common themes. I like to combine these themes with something that reminds me of folk or folklore motifs, or even scary and dark fairy tales, proverbs and sayings. The characters in my paintings are often animals, but they represent people - they think and act like people and experience similar problems.

I want people to find themselves in my works, but at the same time immerse themselves in a world that is different from the real one - mysterious, indeterminate, fairy-tale, magical.

I have been painting since childhood as I attended an elementary art school. Even though I did not choose an artistic path when choosing a profession, I always returned to painting, purely for the joy of creating. It can be said that I started painting intensively during my pregnancy.

 How I got into painting

I'm self-taught, which means I don't have a high school or college degree in Art. As a child, I attended an elementary art school, but at home I was constantly painting, making, cutting and gluing. Imagination was my strong point, I could invent and paint different things without a template. Most often they were fairy tales as figures, portraits and realistic compositions did not go well with me - I always had to put my own stamp on my creations.

Studying at the art school ended with a graduation exhibition and grade evaluation. My evaluation was not good - they said that my pictures were too childish and did not meet with understanding. It really affected me, so I stopped painting completely for about ten years. The turning point came with the film about Frida Kahlo, which completely fascinated me, and gradually I began to return to painting. At first only one, maximum two paintings a year.

If I had to mention another inspiration, it would definitely be the ballads of Karel Jaromír Erben "Kytice", as well as their film adaptation by Juraj Jakubisk. When I saw it for the first time, I felt like someone filmed the world as I see it.

However, everything started in earnest when my son Henry and later my daughter Meda were born. I needed to express all those beautiful emotions and feelings somewhere, so I started painting again - and suddenly it was impossible to stop. It was nothing complicated, I was actually drawing a diary of our daily activities: coffee in bed, our beautiful house, peeling apples, making jam... Inspiration is everywhere. It's like seeing pictures within pictures, my "drawn" reality. It often happens that I completely stop perceiving my surroundings and immerse myself in my painted world...