Elizabeth Ida Novotná

Elizabeth Ida Novotná (born 29 July 1974 in Chomutov) is a painter, draughtswoman and illustrator. She has always perceived drawing and painting as an inseparable part of herself. For her, art and painting is a search for spiritual and mystical principles, inner peace and a form of self-acceptance.

1988 - 1992 she graduated from the Secondary Industrial Construction School in Kadan 1996 she studied figure drawing in Prague 1997 she applied to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in the drawing studio In 2013, after twenty years of living in various places in the Czech Republic and abroad, she returned to her native Chomutov, where she lives and works today. Since 2006 she has been drawing and painting intensively. She has many illustrations for adults and children in her portfolio, and many of her works are abroad. Since 2017 she has been working mainly with abstract painting, as this technique allows her to express herself better artistically.

In her painting she touches upon the questions: who we are, what is in us, the themes of nature's cycles and the search for something higher that transcends us, both mentally and temporally. She divides her free work into several series: EMOTIONS (PERCEPTIONS), LABELS and WAVES A separate area in her work is a series of so-called personal paintings (commissioned). The paintings are inspired by the story of the person being painted. And she is currently working on her new art project "LIDI / PEOPLE". Paintings in which she uses the outlines of body parts of real people and depicts their real or fictional story. She is part of the artistic association Group F, founded by Czech galleries. She has been exhibiting regularly since 2010 (Krakow, Prague, Chomutov, Liberec, Rakovník, Žatec,...) Her illustrations are in 12 books. The last book with her paintings was published in the USA and Czech Republic in 2022 with the title "Asking Answers Finding Questions" by Donna Hall. She is represented in private collections in the Czech Republic, USA, Egypt, France, Poland and Germany.