A Memory of the Temple, 2025

Milada Dureckova  

Born in Ostrava, I grew up in Hlučín, Czechia. For the first 20 years I lived in North Moravia, then in Michalovce, Slovakia, and since 2005 I have lived alternately in Bratislava and Austria.
I have always been involved in painting, but only really intensively in the last 10 years, when I moved from realistic to abstract painting. Abstraction offers me unimaginable possibilities of freedom.
Through painting I can express the energy of thoughts, feelings, and then the image sends it into space. My works are the essence of what I do. I often have a thought in me that will create the name of the painting, but I don't think deeply about how to make the painting. But I know why I'm doing it, I know who I'm doing it for, even if that person is unknown.
I have a strong urge to paint, and if I don't notice the time while working, I always put the energy that the painting needs into the painting. I still have other paintings in progress and sometimes I wake up at night and something makes me get up and in the morning I finish a painting that was waiting unfinished before. These are the works that I say they painted themselves.
I am satisfied with my life, I am grateful for everything I have experienced. I enjoy life in paintings, I paint for people and I wish everyone could bring the energy they need into their space and enjoy painting.