Lucie Svoboda
“I see my work as a record of my daily life. The writings concern what I like to call seemingly banal activities, such as walking the dog. It doesn’t matter what season it is; nature always sends impulses in the form of shapes and colors that I store somewhere in my subconscious. Swimming, for example, is like a medium for me where I create sketches for the next plan or progression on an existing canvas with each dive underwater. Emotions are always pulsing as well, adding another type of charge that I need for self-expression in my work. These daily stimuli are the filing cabinet I draw from in my studio, where I create with paint a fantasy climate for those eyes that like to find shapes in the clouds, that like to look into the flames of the fire and wish they could read it. Abstraction is an individual story for each new observer.”
Lucie Svoboda, born in Liberec in 1972, has been painting and drawing since early childhood, her favorite subject being the world of insects.
She graduated from the Art School of Glass, majoring in Artistic Processing of Jewellery in Glass, under the guidance of Professor Laďka Laštovičková.
After graduation, her travels took her outside her field of study, and thanks to the Italian language she acquired after graduation, Lucie worked as a translator. In 1997, Lucie started working in the tourism industry, and from then until 2016, she was the manager of the 5-star hotel chain Alchymist Luxury Group.
In 2005, she smelled canvas and paint again, and since then, she slowly started to return to art.
In 2016, she traded her career as a hotel manager for a career as an avid abstract artist, which, in time, turned out to be one of the best decisions of her life. Her artworks are part of personal collections around the world.
Exhibitions:
2024 Artpro Gallery, Prague
2024 Yvonne Art Gallery
2023 Galerie Toyen, Prague, Czech Republic “4 GIRLS”
2023 Steiner Gallery, Wien, Austria
2023 Port Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Twinart Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2022 Artist Experience, Madrid, Spain
2022 Art3f, Mulhouse, France
2022 Art Prague
2022 Port Gallery Barcelona, Spain
2021 Art Prague
2021 Laufen Gallery Prague solo exhibition
2020 Art Prague 2019 Leipzig Art Fair – Vang Gogh Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2019 Art Prague
2019 Paris Art Fair – Vang Gogh Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2019 Affordable Arf Fair, London – Emotions of the World Gallery, Milan, Italy
2018 ALLfest – Litomerice
2017 Vnitroblock – Prague
2017 Spring “ART MIX” with topic “Love”, Bratislava
2017 Art of 21st century without a judgment, Prague
2016 ALLfest – Litomerice
2015 Trevisan International Art Little Treasure – Treviso, Italy
2014 Untitled Artists Fair – London, Great Britain
2013 Chianciano Biennale – Chianciano, Italy
Magazines:
2019 ELLE DECOR UK
2014 Rivierart
2014 Arttourinternational
Studies:
1986 – 1990 The High School of Applied Arts for Glassmaking in Železný Brod, The Czech Republic Specialization in the glass jewelry – Prof. Zdeňka Laštovičková
Previous Career:
1997 – 2016 Alchymist Luxury Group, hotel manager, Prague, Czech Republic