For me, painting is exploration, communication, play — and sometimes escape. It allows me to return to an experience, look at it more deeply, and understand why it has stayed with me.
My paintings usually begin with something I have experienced. It always happens somewhere, but the place itself is not always the true subject. Sometimes I feel a strong need to paint a particular street, landscape, view, or quiet corner. At other times, it is the atmosphere or emotion of a moment that I want to preserve.
I return to the experience through memory. Rather than reproducing exactly what I saw, I choose colours that carry its feeling, adding imagination and often a touch of whimsy.
Colour is the language of my work. I use intuitive and sometimes unexpected palettes to express emotion rather than visual accuracy. Familiar places can become playful, reflective, dreamlike, or quietly magical when their colours begin to tell a different story.
I am especially drawn to ordinary and overlooked places because they hold atmosphere, memory, and emotion. My work lives between whimsy and contemplation: some paintings invite you to wander, while others invite you to pause and breathe.
I paint for people who respond deeply to colour, notice atmosphere, and find meaning in places and moments that may seem ordinary to others.
I work digitally and traditionally. Even when a painting begins on an iPad, I approach it as a painting rather than as an image made only for a screen. Selected works are available as limited-edition fine art prints, created to live in real spaces and become part of other people’s lives..
United States
2015
“VS” Group show - “Ess, Ess Mein Kindt!!” a collaborative work with Susie Stockholm, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California
“Out There” Group show - “Just the Two of Us I.” Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California
Czech Republic
2022
“Nikkor vs Vektor” - with Mikulas Petr, Akademia Cafe, Prague
2024
Mikulas Petr & Lenka Talska - Čítárna Unijazz 2024
You can find more about my art and creative process on my YouTube channel Lenka Talska Art
Background & Practice
I’ve loved to draw and paint since childhood. There was a period when I couldn’t stop painting in my teens, then there was a period when I hardly painted anything at all for about 15 years.
Many members of my family paint, my sister, Viola Kučerová, is a painter and my grandfather, Josef Konečný, was a traditional painter. He studied at the Prague Academy of Art in the 30s.
I’m mostly self taught and intuitive painter. I attended art courses for children and studied art for one semester at Masaryk University, Brno Czech Republic. I also studied Graphic Design in San Diego, California and this experience brought me back to creating art.
I’m Czech and come from Brno. I'm also American and I lived in California.
Currently I live in Brno.
I participated in two group exhibitions in West Hollywood and I had two exhibitions together with my brother, Mikuláš Petr, a photographer in Prague.
My art evolved from the fantasy and realistic work of my teenage and young adult years to my current focus on mosaic and free-style landscapes and cityscapes, often fauvist in spirit, as well as whimsical fantasies and abstract works.
I began as a traditional artist, working with oil, gouache, pastel, and colored pencils. After a long break, I returned to art through watercolor, colored pencils, and mixed media. I then turned fully to digital painting, creating my works on an iPad using Procreate. At present, I am again exploring a balance between traditional and digital media, using both as a way to investigate their boundaries and possibilities.