The author is a painter, drawing artist and graphic artist, whose work is based on, but not limited to, a classical art foundation. She moves naturally between traditional subjects such as portrait, still life, landscape and sacred space, as well as contemporary questions of identity, everyday life, consumerism, tradition and the transformation of local culture. Her work could be characterised as classical experimentation: she doesn't give up the painting craft, mass, colour, drawing and physical presence of the work, but uses them to open up new layers of meaning.
Her work repeatedly displays an interest in structure, ornament, light, relief, graphic symbols and material traces. Painting isn't just a picture surface to her; it’s a space with its own body. She works with oil, mixed media, drawing, graphic art and techniques between painting and relief. In addition to figurative and socially-oriented cycles, she also paints landscapes, which bring a different dimension to her work: attention to natural space, atmosphere, and the quiet order of place.
Examination of contemporary forms of ritual are an important area of the author's work. She is interested in how spaces of meeting, consumption, belief and everyday repetition are transformed in modern society. She sees large shopping centres, shops, shop windows and small establishments as visual and psychological spaces in which a person moves between anonymity, accessibility, absorption and the special attraction of contemporary consumerism.
The cycle Domácí potreby / Needs of Home continues this line as a more intimate and raw counterpart to monumental shopping centres. It shifts attention to small stores and convenience stores, where trade, work, body, cheap goods, kitsch, ornament and hidden spirituality overlap in everyday operation.
In Central Eastern Europe, the Asian minority experience, established for several generations, meets the local need for cheapness, quick availability and instant gratification. It's not about searching for home from the outside; both parties are already part of the same environment. The cycle merely watches how various needs, customs and ideas of value layer without grand gestures through products, food, shop windows, work and repeating daily rituals.
The presented paintings capture various forms of this blending: a conversation between two worlds, a tradition transformed into an ornament, an altar hidden among products, a shop window as a cemetery of taste and a still life, in which ordinary food and drink touch the idea of a sacred ritual.
