Martina Vondrova
I am an Edinburgh and Prague based artist and I focus on painting in acrylics and watercolours. Finding my way towards art has been a spontaneous journey of falling in love with colours, light and the activity of painting itself.
As children we don’t question our interest in something, we just live what life gives us. I don’t really remember when I started painting, but it was in secondary school when I discovered course books from Spanish painter José María Parramón Vilasaló in our small community library. I immediately fell in love with them. I read everything I could find on the subject of painting and started painting in a more educated way.
Since taking classes in painting was not a standard thing in the Post-Soviet Czech Republic and the internet has not existed there yet I learnt from visiting galleries and studying closely the exhibited artwork. I was intrigued by the work of Czech painter Max Švabinský so much that I was escorted out of art gallery after touching one of his original paintings with my nose whilst studying the techniques of his brush strokes. His feeling for light similar to one of the Impressionist style and a sense for detail in his graphics, awakened my desire for pursuing the path of a painter.
In my late twenties I was lucky enough to meet Scottish Borders based painter and art tutor Philip B. Hutton who became my friend, inspiration and teacher.
As children we don’t question our interest in something, we just live what life gives us. I don’t really remember when I started painting, but it was in secondary school when I discovered course books from Spanish painter José María Parramón Vilasaló in our small community library. I immediately fell in love with them. I read everything I could find on the subject of painting and started painting in a more educated way.
Since taking classes in painting was not a standard thing in the Post-Soviet Czech Republic and the internet has not existed there yet I learnt from visiting galleries and studying closely the exhibited artwork. I was intrigued by the work of Czech painter Max Švabinský so much that I was escorted out of art gallery after touching one of his original paintings with my nose whilst studying the techniques of his brush strokes. His feeling for light similar to one of the Impressionist style and a sense for detail in his graphics, awakened my desire for pursuing the path of a painter.
In my late twenties I was lucky enough to meet Scottish Borders based painter and art tutor Philip B. Hutton who became my friend, inspiration and teacher.