Jan Valik

Jan Valik (b. 1987, Slovakia) received his MFA from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2012. In 2016 he was awarded the third place in the VUB Painting Competition (Slovakia, 2016) and is currently based in London. Works of Jan Valik emerge from a space among ‘absorbed’ landscapes, recollections, sense and memory. His semi-abstract paintings remain essentially open for interpretation as they oscillate back and forth between spatial evocation and abstracted gesture. They balance spontaneity with careful pictorial construction bridging and echoing the principles of Far Eastern and Western painting traditions.

Jan Valik, Landscape with a Resolution, 2020, oil on linen, 160 cm x 135 cm © The Artist
Jan Valik, Unfolding Horizon, 2020, oil on canvas, 30 cm x 40 cm © The Artist
Jan Valik, Unforseen Escape, 2019, oil on canvas, 45 x 36 cm, © The Artist

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