THE PLACE WHERE I DO NOT BELONG through the bushes and forest - Painting

Kristyna Sormová (*1985) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the years 2006 – 2012 (painting studio II, doc. Vladimír Skrepl). In 2009, she completed an internship in the studio of a visiting professor (Jan Merta). In 2010 she studied at the Belas artes da Universidade in Porto and in 2011 at the Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. She won third place in the 6th edition of the Critic's Prize for young overlay painting in 2013. She has been exhibiting regularly since 2010. We could meet her work at last on the exhibitions "3200" ASA, Cejka Gallery in Prague 2022 and „Young and Restful ”, Meetfactory, Prague 2022 Kristýna Šormová’s art work is closely linked with her intimate experiencing of landscape. She absorbs into her most inner world structures, horizons, atmospheric phenomena, light and natural elements. These perceptions she then combines into a kind of inner register, as if an album of experiences, which spontaneously surface at the very moment of creation. The intriguing question is whether this process is controlled consciously or whether it is a result of relaxed psycho-automatic expression, in which the artist is immersed in her thoughts and draws on the previously collected inner register. It is secondary whether she opts for paper or oil as the medium to convey her art. The principle of her creation always remains the same – she strips the surface of everything superfluous as if getting rid of an old sediment of emotions and she reduces everything into basic elements that are in turn combined into random amorphous structures which then become an abstract vehicle of her spiritual experience. Each of her cycles was modelled on real landscape. Some of her work carries traces of her impressions collected while travelling through England, Japan, Israel and Peru. Even though Kristýna purposefully visits exotic countries, she also keeps coming to places, which had the biggest impact on her in early childhood; she still feels deeply attached to her birth region. This area she knows so well provides her with sense of home – the place where she belongs. She is strongly aware of this affinity and consciously immerses in it, especially in turning moments of her life.