I am Czech-based academic artist focused on realistic figurative painting. I am very active painter that dedicates her life to the painting. What differs me from others is that I use live models and only three basic colours that I mix.

Artist's statement
My paintings are tightly connected with childhood, mostly in the way that I construct them - similary to children, I personify things. The objects in my paintings, therefore represent living people, emotions or desires. For example, I express the feeling of being home through marshmallow trees and lamp in the shape of house on the wall, these create an idea of cozy light cabin at the edge of the woods. Conversely the shiny glittering unicorn can bear the meaning of easy, superficially, beautiful lies, while the old toy black horse refers to something ugly but truthful. And a view of a blue sky means unreachable happiness – although we see it, it is too difficult to reach it. My paintings are thus charged with symbolism.

As mentioned above, the way I perceive the world is similar to the way children see it – full of ,,living” things which can become bearers of meanings. However I don't focus solely on children's toys and nostalgic memories in my compositions. I mostly depict useless things which adults buy to keep their sadness at bay – the shiny, cute and fluffy nonsenses, sweets and knick-knacks through which we try to buy the feeling of calm and happiness – a feeling that is as unreachable as the blue sky.

I aim to convey modern superficial society. People are consumed by the fear of seeking the truth; they opt to remain on the surface of things, never venturing into the deeper meanings. The society's choice is never to look deeper; never to ask if the man with horns on his head is evil or whether he just wants us to see something ugly but truthful. The choice is never to ask if those nice kitschy things are really what we need to achieve happiness. I aim to create paintings that prompt us to ask: who is really the devil here? What is hidden behind the shiny beatiful objects?

The catharsis of these ideas lies in my series called "About Superficiality," a collection of several two-meter sized canvases full of symbols and hidden meanings. In these series as well as in my all other pieces, I create my own artistic "language" to express myself, as the existing ones simply does not fit my "words".