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Mara Ohman? The one with nests!
The theme of nests has taken root in me, it comes back to me regularly and I regularly devote myself to nests.I have already used various techniques for my nests. I have created a nest with dry pastels, oil paints, also in acrylic. Now I have let myself be drawn in even deeper and I have started to look at the nests that I carry within me. All the nests that I have inherited. The nest into which I was born, the ones that I am creating anew and the one that I carry within me for myself. I applied…
Installation in AHREND SLOVAKIA
You can find the AHREND SLOVAKIA showroom on the way to Železná studnička in Bratislava, just before the Red Bridge. How many times have I gone on my power walk to the forest park and walked past AHREND, so many times have I thought how great it would be to have a workplace in such an amazing place! Forest, stream, and fresh air just a few steps away and very pleasant, eye-pleasing architecture and user-friendly scale…However, opportunities sometimes come in a slightly different form than we dream of them. That was the case with the installation of my abstract art…
Blue girls again in Modra
After my October exhibition at Kaštiel Modra, I was approached by Martin Plaštiak from Wild Kitchen in Modra with an offer to exhibit my works in February 2025 at his restaurant. This great opportunity became a reality on 3 February, when we installed my blue girls and two nests in the restaurant. The original stone walls provided an interesting contrast to the subtle poetics of my paintings and nicely complemented the stories that my paintings tell.Thank you!
FIFTY : FIFTY!
I’ve already had this idea in my mind for some time… When else should I manage such an event, if not on January 25, 2025, the day after my “big” birthday?Finding a suitable space for Fifty: Fifty occasion was not easy. However, when you truly wish for something, even the universe joins its energy to help. I have witnessed many times that my warm-hearted/sincere/joyful ideas always find some supporters in my circle of acquaintances and then… Then things start happening!I could not have dreamed of a more beautiful space for my pop-up than the AHREND SLOVAKIA showroom. On Friday evening,…
This always gets me!
The excitement when something is coming up is contagious… The production work is endless (a little more practice and the production could start feeding me…), I’m turning into a meticulous detailer, the energy demand increases, the tension rises, I feel like a hamster, that sums it up supplies for the winter. Every time I learn something new and my curator teases me with successive doses of ideas. Yes, I know if he had dumped it all on me at the beginning, who knows if we would have made it this far: packed, transported, written, printed… we have already have got…
Thursday 25 January was the D-day!
The exhibition in the Starý Avion Gallery awaits, installed in smooth and warm cooperation with my curator Ľudko Petránsky, my husband Miloš Novák and my daughter’s friend Filip Chobor. All this, of course, with the great support of gallerist Janka Gappa Chrappová. Vernissage outfit prepared, wine from the Purus winery chilling, refreshments served, tension and excitement rising. The first guests arrive before six o’clock, and then a whirlwind of hugs, joy, speeches, fantastic drumming, excitement… I allowed my creativity to fully express itself and during last summer and autumn, I created, painted, drew… I let myself be carried away by…