LUCIA HORUCKOVÁ

Artist Statement

„My body of work represents the storytelling paintings or cyanotypes. I paint in subtle style depicting fragility and beauty in the form of women embedded in surreal landscape enriched with symbolic elements, where individual scenes are carried in the spirit of magical realism. Very often a language of dreams and flower symbolism is also present. My work is one of unique as concerns as the technology I have developed over time. As a basis, I use natural papers from around the world and I also produce my own hand-made eco-craft papers on which I then paint. In addition to commercial watercolor and dry pastel technique, I partially paint with colors of my own manufacture, prepared from natural clays found in nature. All this highlights my strong interest in the environment and its urge to find the balance again.“