Marcela Václavíková  THAT WHAT PAINTS 

After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where she studied in the painting studio of Prof. Radomír Kolář and Prof. Jiří Sopek, she devotes herself to free creation, where painting expression has priority. In every creative period, from early works to the present, one can trace a great and sincere fascination with nature, landscape and the symbol of the animal. She is often referred to as She Who Paints Horses, although on closer inspection one should already write landscape, where all those horses belong. Paradoxically, in the present work, this motif is loosened into a natural scenery where we feel an effort to express harmony, order and peace. In the mountain forests intersected by wild streams, in the rocks and ravines, we can only glimpse the life of animals and the presence of man. A hint that has never been spoken before and is all the more disturbing. The mountain landscape is a challenge for the author, which she considers her main theme, also because the Jeseníky Mountains have become her home.

 And so THAT WHAT SHE PAINTS , paints with a sincere fascination for everything that surrounds her. The evolution of her expression has moved from the initial simplistic character and symbolic colouring to a more realistic expression in which humility before the magnificence of the mountain theatre with its raw natural laws and the hunt for eternal trophies is evident..... It is not only in the mountain landscapes that a relaxed and expressive handwriting and an almost graphic draughtsmanship is evident, a characteristic feature that may have been influenced by his study of printmaking with Prof. Dalibor Chatrný at the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Brno. What flashes in the painting remains evident in the drawing and also in the illustrations. THAT WHAT 

HE PAINTS is represented by her paintings in the permanent collections of the National Gallery in Prague, the Trade Fair Palace and private collections in the Czech Republic and abroad.