Jiri Stika

Jiri Stika is a contemporary visual artist based in the Czech Republic.

For more than twenty years, he has explored silence through painting. His work is inspired by fragments of memory, nature, poetry, classical music, and the emotional landscapes of the human mind, solitude, melancholy, longing, and hope.

Working primarily with oil paint, pigments, textiles, and heavily textured surfaces, he builds his paintings through layers, erosion, and excavation. Rather than depicting places or objects, he seeks to reveal traces of time and emotion hidden beneath the surface.

Many of his works are created using historical pigments, including Egyptian Blue, one of the oldest known pigments in human history. These materials connect the present moment with distant memory and create a sense of depth that extends beyond the visible image.

“I paint time. Not as a clock, but as a trace. A memory. A scar.”

His ongoing series, including CHRONOS, explore the relationship between time, silence, decay, and light. Each painting develops slowly through successive layers, where destruction and creation become part of the same process.

His work is intended for collectors who are drawn to atmosphere, material presence, and paintings that reveal themse...

Engraving Art School, Czech Republic (Specialization in traditional techniques and metalwork)

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