Gentle, gestural and fluid: "Metamorphosis of the trace into a vision.."
Gentle, gestural and fluid: "metamorphosis of the trace into a vision."
View uncommonly good work by new artist Jan Valik - Masters graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. The work reveals an artist engaged in an endeavour, a struggle for ".the metamorphosis of the trace into a vision."
Wherever The Quiet Place by Jan Valik
Original painting in oil on canvas
Width: 100 cm / Height: 70 cm
"This work is inspired by early imaginary landscapes which is an essential part of artists effort since at least its early Renaissance days of European painting. Here, I work purely with gesture of brushwork to create and evoke a sense of space and its many perspectives within one frame."
Look Back by Jan Valik
Original painting in oil on canvas.
Width: 45 cm / Height: 35 cm
Cave-scape I by Jan Valik
Original painting in oil on canvas.
Width: 35 cm / Height: 45 cm
Air Is Water And Smoke Are Mountains by Jan Valik
Original painting in oil on canvas.
"This work is an abstracted landscape combining imagined and 'brushwork-evoked' space. I explore both Eastern (Japanese and Chinese) and Western landscape traditions and this work is an clear example of bridging their principles resulting in a mind-scape."
Width: 65 cm / Height: 53 cm
Wild Shores by Jan Valik
Original painting in oil on canvas.
Width: 50 cm / Height: 35 cm
Midnight Garden Calm by Jan Valik
Original painting in oil on canvas.
"Inspiration for this painting comes from exploring Japanese gardens and their atmosphere which is carefully constructed with great attention to shapes of light and shadows. I started this work while being in Japan in early 2018 and finished it once I returned to Europe."
Caldera (2 canvases) by Jan Valik
Original painting in oil on canvas.
Width: 100 cm / Height: 40 cm
