KLÁRA LANGROVÁ
She was born in 1982 in Kadaň. She received a basic art education but then started a career with an economic focus and worked for several years in corporate companies.
She painted her first painting on canvas 16 years ago. In the beginning, her work was mainly about finding herself, which led to her first exhibition in 2013. Over the years, her painting technique and unique artistic expression are constantly changing and developing. Painting is her daily bread, and it means a way of expressing her emotions and feelings. Her creative process usually begins with a dream or vision, which she processes first on a mental level. After that comes the creation itself.
“Most of the time the final painting differs from my initial idea because the mind generally sets great limits. It offers only what we already know and leaves the unknown hidden. In my creative process I let go of these limitations and let the unmanifested things manifest and bring to the fore what is hidden. The painting can therefore offer the observer far more than is possible to perceive with the naked eye. I myself am often surprised from what depths of the subconscious the work is created and what topic it opens up."
The paintings are born from the depths of her soul and offer topics to think about and maybe even answers to various life’s questions. None of her paintings is just decoration but reflects her perception of the world and thinking about its essence.
"Death is a topic that people don't like to talk about. She came to me in a dream and scared me quite a lot. That's why I wanted to portray death as a new beginning, something beautiful and transformative, and I'm grateful that visitors to my exhibitions perceive the painting the same way"
Klára increasingly composes poems to accompany her paintings. Sometimes the poem is created before the painting, sometimes several weeks after. She does not consider herself a poet, but she wants to underline the essence of her paintings through poetry. Although she mostly uses acrylic paints, she also likes mixed media and does not hesitate to reach for dry and oil pastels, markers or powder pigments. She uses classic brushes but also non-traditional tools.
„I'm not a painter, but I still paint. I am not a poet, but I still write poems on a blank sheet. If you want, you can read.”
