Blanka Morikawa

My work emerges from a deep, meditative exploration of life’s essential truths and the raw freedom that unfolds when we release our inner constraints. Using a foundation of acrylics and charcoal, my compositions embrace an organic simplicity that aims to uncover the core of human experience. By working on raw canvas, I strip my process down to its most honest elements, allowing the textures, colours, and gestures to speak directly to the viewer without excess.

My process is one of intuitive surrender, where each mark flows without a preconceived plan, embracing spontaneity over control. This freedom is central to my practice, inviting me—and by extension, the viewer—to experience the purity of creation unencumbered by judgment or expectation. Through a careful balance of gestural marks and simple, child-like drawings and writings, I construct pieces that feel simultaneously playful and grounded, echoing my personal philosophy of authenticity and openness.

My choice of soft, pastel colour palettes serves to heighten this sense of naive innocence, creating visual spaces that are raw, playful and honest. For me, the act of painting is a journey of self-discovery and release, one that seeks not only to portray, but to invite reflecti...

Blanka Morikawa (b. 1988) is a Czech abstract painter based in Prague. Her work delves into the essential nature of being—what is revealed when fear, trauma, and internal barriers are stripped away. Guided by intuition and a philosophy of radical freedom, Morikawa approaches painting as an act of surrender, releasing control, expectation, and judgment in favor of authenticity and presence.

Working primarily with acrylic and charcoal on raw canvas, Morikawa's minimal compositions are distinguished by soft pastel palettes and the spontaneous inclusion of naive drawings and handwritten text. These elements reflect her unfiltered inner world, capturing fleeting thoughts and impulses with playful honesty. Each painting functions as a diary entry—an invitation to witness the raw immediacy of emotion and thought.

Morikawa's work has attracted a growing audience and is held in private collections both in the Czech Republic and internationally.

2025

Ateliéry Gabriel 2025 | group exhibition | Gabriel Loci | Prague, Czech Republic
it’s not that serious, honey | solo exhibition | Těsně vedle Burundi | Prague, Czech Republic

2024

Becoming | Ye’s Kafe | Prague, Czech Republic
Safe Spaces | Art Connect Society | online group exhibition

2023

Group Exhibition | Atelier45 | Prague, Czech Republic
Solo Exhibition | Kafe Jak Lusk | Olomouc, Czech Republic

2022

Group Exhibition | Ponec Theatre | Prague, Czech Republic