Alice Adamčíková

Even as a little girl, I used to draw pictures for my grandfather (on my dad's side) when he came to visit us. He carefully kept them in his collection. Grandpa was a timeless being in his thinking and outlook on life, he saw only the good things life had to offer and left the negatives at the "DOOR". I also often think of my grandmother (on my mother's side), with whom I stayed at times to babysit. I loved her. I remember how she loved to sit by the window every morning with her fresh heady smelling ground coffee and just peer out the window at the neighborhood and the happenings outside. I watched her without batting an eyelid when I woke up and even then, as a little girl, she was aware of the importance of her morning moment. She was enveloped in a certain energetic glow that reached all the way to my bed, where she made me feel calm, safe, secure and light... Thank you, Grandma. Also her husband, my grandfather, who liked to smoke and his moments were in the basement where he would tinker, create, have his world there, an escape into his world. You can't forget the intense smell of nicotine and thick fog. You are still HERE - the smell of coffee, cigarettes and that positive energy... Why did I start like this? I wanted to share with you who I am, to tell you what influenced me as a being in the creation of my paintings... We are influenced not only by the environment where we live, but also by the people around us.I am an amateur painter, a creator of something that is not governed by rules, a kind of template of "the same", I love the freedom, the imaginativeness and the "smell" of the unconscious mirroring of our soul in whatever we create around us... I paint my paintings intuitively, I don't know what will be created on a given canvas, sometimes it is very exhausting because I put a piece of my present being there, I get into another space-time. It's challenging and at the same time so beautiful, there is no fear, anxiety, combination of thoughts, no people, past or future, there is only the HERE AND NOW and my "I".