Lucia Tuzinska

I create places to breathe — peaceful, surreal worlds of deep water, humming forests, and skies you can climb into. Drawing from the timeless wisdom of fairy tales, I treat these narratives not as an escape from reality, but as an invitation toward personal transformation.

My process is a conversation with the viewer. I hide thoughts and concepts within the textures of poetic surrealism, and when a painting leaves my studio, the process runs in reverse: someone else peels the surface away, layer by layer, and finds beneath the gold and ink the unseen landscape of a psyche — often their own. That is what I want a canvas to be: a mirror you can dive into.

- Ten years of painting studies under Mgr. art. Soňa Herényiová-Belanová
- Two-year program in Art Therapy, "Intervention through Art" (Intervencia umením), with Prof. PaedDr. Jaroslava Šicková-Fabrici at Terra Therapeutica (260 hours)
- Internationally certified foundational program in Life Coaching, Christian Coach School
- Some 100 hours of experiential therapy and supervision with Mgr. Viera Pachová, trained in Compassionate Inquiry under Dr. Gábor Maté
- 120 hours of experiential psychoanalytic art therapy with academic painter Kamila Ženatá
- Over 2,500 hours of self-study in art, therapy, and personal development

2026 - Art Without Borders (Arte Senza Confini), Sala Boccabianca, Potenza Picena, Italy
2026 - Galerie Contemplor, Vienna, Austria
2025 - REFLEXIE V., Slovak Art Association, Banská Bystrica, Turčianske Teplice, Piešťany, Slovakia
2025 - XVIII. Salve Prachatice, Winter Garden, Prachatice, Town Hall, Prachatice, Czech Republic
2024 - Bibliotéka 2024, Incheba Expo Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
2024 - Counterpoles (Protipóly) — duo, Galéria Mólo & Galéria Stará lekáreň, Piešťany, Slovakia
2024 - I. Kláštery Český Krumlov, Kláštery Český Krumlov, Český Krumlov, Czech Republic
2024 - Tag der Druckkunst, Kulturmodell Passau Donauraum, Passau, Germany
2024 - The Fairytale World of Lucia Tužinská (Rozprávkový svet Lucie Tužinskej) — solo, Sankt Vitus, Rusovce, Slovakia
2024 - Let's Meet In a Dream Tomorrow (Stretnime sa zajtra vo sne) — solo, Château Bela, Belá, Štúrovo, Slovak Republic
2024 - XIV. Group Exhibition, Galerie u Zlatého Kohouta, Prague, Czech Republic
2024 - SACROEXPO Slovakia 2024, Incheba Expo Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
2023 - Bibliotéka 2023, Incheba Expo Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
2023 - MODDOM 2023, Incheba Expo Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
2023 - SACROEXPO Slovakia 2023, Incheba Expo Bratislava, ...