Elizabeth Ida Novotná

"Creativity is like breathing. Once you take a breath, you can't stop."

I have always seen painting and drawing as a part of me. I have always been interested in philosophy, mysticism, natural cycles and principles of the human psyche. Painting and art have been a way for me to touch these topics in deepness. Art is a way how to be authentic, to search for inner peace, a deeper primal essence and something higher that transcends us.

For years my artistic work has been about drawing and illustrations for children and adults. The colourful illustrations drawn with crayons were like limitless worlds of fantasy, hidden stories, fun and sometimes a bit of hidden mysticism.
One day I needed to leave a drawn boundaries and spread more wings. Many last years I have been using acrylic paintings which allow me to better express in abstract word.

"Abstraction allows me to achieve more freedom where the limits are usually just a time and a size of the canvas."

In some of my paintings, call them LINES, I touch on a slightly meditative view of the world. We don't achieve inner peace through thoughts and overthinking. With seemingly simple paintings in which there is nothing to understand, I want to allow paintings let affect people, and to b...

Autodidact / Self taught artist

2024 Biennale Artbox Expo, Venezia (Italy)
2024 "The Calm Behind The Toughs", U Jednorožce, Chomutov (Czech Republic)
2024 Group exhibition Prague Art Meeting (Czech Republic)
2023 Swiss Art Expo, Zürich (Switzerland)
2023 Group exhibition Art in Prague (Czech Republic)
2022 "Inside and outside", Republika Chomutov (Czech Republic)
2022 "Perception" KC Beseda Klánovice, Prague (Czech Republic)
2022 Lodger Gallery (USA)
2022 "Perception" České galerie Skupina F, Týnská ul., Prague (Czech Republic)
2022 Modrý sál Lehrlova vila, Žatec (Czech Republic)
2021 Group Exhibition Open Art Fest, Prague (Czech Republic)
2020 Gymnasium Chomutov (Czech Republic)
2019 Music Festival Závislý Zubr (Czech Republic)
2019 "Wisdom of the body", Lucerna Palace, Prague (Czech Republic)
2018 Group exhibition "Magic square", Gallery Lurago, Chomutov (Czech Republic)
2018 Group exhibition "Magic square", Gallery OC Šestka, Prague (Czech Republic)
2015 Group exhibiton "Elephants", Gallery Samson, Rakovník (Czech Republic)
2011 Podkrušnohorský park Chomutov (Czech Republic)
2011 Aparthotel Spatz, Crakow (Poland)
2010 International School of Crakow (Poland)
2010 Galerosaunus, Pilsner (Czech Republic)