Jitka Ottová (*1976 Brno, Czechia)

For me, painting is a gateway to a multi-layered and changing inner landscape.
It brings me back to the present and to the direction of my own life.
Here I can listen and glimpse connections that often remain hidden from me
in the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

I create without formal art education.
My journey emerged gradually, from the need to find a language with which to express
what I perceive behind words.

Belonging is important to me.
I perceive the bond with the power of the moment, the artistic medium, and my own presence as a partnership, on the basis of which each of my paintings is created.

When a painting mediates a person's contact with themselves, I take it as a precious moment. Not because it offers answers, but because it opens up an opportunity for self-discovery.

This is precisely where I see the meaning of my work.
To create a space through paintings that invites us to stop and encounter
what is waiting for its attention within us.