Radek Skopec

I would characterize myself as a “ solitaire – autodidact”.
Above all else, I have always tried to enrich the artistic development journey with my ability to naturally engage with an understanding of shape and line.
Throughout my expansive efforts, I have become, little by little, more intimate with contemporary fine art techniques encapsulating different materials and processes. Emerging from this natural progression there arose a new and unique visual language – a fascination for the structure of the scathed or broken surface area – with which today I combine, so as to reinforce the subliminal from this fundamental technical form. Whilst the material structure is dominant in each painting, it is through employing discontinuity in shape and line and texture that their effect is magnified, encapsulating a strong receptacle for the message.

This promotes the division of individual layers of work into several phases:

The Phase of the Subconscious Mind
In my first conception of a work I put my trust in natural response – by instinct, in my emotions and my imagination. From that I seek coincidence, which inexplicably always seems to resolve itself, and with which I engage through the final results of the work. At the begin...