Artist statement

Jana Zimová was born in the Czech Republic and now lives and works in the North of Germany. She paints in the style of magical realism and fantastic realism. Besides that, she also devotes herself to landscape art. Her artworks stand somewhere between fantasy and reality and create a dreamlike atmosphere. They are painted using the traditional oil painting method on canvas.

Themes of her works come from observation of our inner and outer world; visually they are inspired by theaters, circuses, dancing scenes and everyday life. In those pictures we usually find figures, in solitude or in groups, placed in nature. Landscapes, figures and objects themselves often carry a symbolic meaning. She very sensitively combines elements of reality so that the final scene seems like a familiar magical world, where we can't divide reality from fantasy, but we experience it in a very natural way, perhaps as if we were in a living dream, with its own rules and logic.

There is always some contradiction in those artworks, a lightness and a radiance, as well as a darker side of life. Such motifs and the stories behind them, in which we have the feeling that something else could still happen and we cannot say exactly what it is, lead to deeper reflection and thinking.

In her art she never works with artificial intelligence; she prefers artist intelligence and traditional artistic craft instead.