The most hidden of distant places Print

My name is Ivana. Ivana Janiková. I am an artist from a small country in Central Europe. It's called Slovakia, maybe you've already heard of it. This is the place where I find fragments of the disappearing culture of our ancestors, and these elements serve me as material for creation. The paintings capture a brief moment of everyday life in a world where people are just a small part of a bigger whole. A simple life, idealized by the nostalgia with which our grandmothers remember their childhood. Wooden houses, the lovely beauty of nature, and lots of details. That is my constant source of inspiration. When I was a child, my grandmother, the painter Irena Zemaníková, introduced me to the topic. She created paintings that were memories of her childhood, and I watched her curiously. In the years 2003 to 2007, I attended the High School of Applied Arts and Design in Kremnica, and later started painting. I have a limited amount of artwork to offer because it takes me 3-8 weeks to paint one painting. But I spend a lot of time on all of my paintings because I want each of them to be special.