Bára of Nikolajka: She wrote from the age of two.And with her manuscript she also decorated the October edition of Maminka magazine<

How do you remember your childhood - according to your own words "with pencil in hand"?Where did the desire to paint and write in you?

I grew up at a time when my sister and I had no room crowded with toys and we played quite spontaneously - at school, shop, we liked to change into the costumes… for me they were the best toy of crayons, my mother drew my coloring books that I enjoyed coloring.Then I recall my passion for anilines that my grandfather showed me again.I guess I will never forget how much I enjoyed watching the magic drinking of colors together.Mom and Grandpa I had my artistic patterns and I wanted to be able to paint like them.Grandma drew flowers in one pull and combined blue with a red pen she always had as a pedagogue at hand.

Who influenced you the most in the future? Grandmother's uncle, Renaissance man - played the violin in the quartet, was a teacher, a theater and beautifully painted.His room was full of watercolors and business cards to order with calligraphic inscriptions.I did not understand how beautiful it is possible to write and I wished to grow up, be like him.In fact, in our family, everyone can do something, draw and write nicely always, so I never really found that I can do something exceptional.

How could you use your talent in practice-did you sign a pupil's book? Exactly :-).And not only to myself-I could sign most parents from the class :-D in calligraphy but it is not just about being able to adapt the font but also of my own creative process.He started to show me through the Grafitti formation at my gympl if I could say that.And then I had my whole life as a typist, writer, rewriter on the board, etc..I loved writing on the board.At the grammar school I then excelled in the creation of various projects.

Do you inspire your daughter by what you do?Do you think it will inherit your talent?

Emilka is very creative and curious.She has been watching my work since childhood and is a large part of her.When I recently prepared paintings for my first exhibition, we even painted one painting together.It looked good for a while, but suddenly it was a patlanic that I had to overwhelm.The result was one of the best paintings of the whole collection, and it is our common creative process, our common “flow”.We can say that we inspire each other.It looks like she has inherited certain talents and feel for colors, but whether she lasts or she enjoys something completely different, hard to say.It is important to find something to fulfill her all her life, whatever it is.

What do you like most of your work and why? Along with my daughter and her children's drawings my work has changed.I started to fully perceive the colors I have been defending so far.At the moment, my free creation of acrylic on the canvas fills me the most.After years I decided to abstract painting that is for me a stop that I only paint with intuition and free stream of thoughts.It requires a great deal of courage and it is still one of the biggest challenges, but also a reward.I began to feel the need to create something that I will stay here after me except the books I illustrate.