Titled: Invisible Connections 4
Artist: Jan Valik
Size: 21cm*30cm
Medium: watercolour and ink with collage on handmade paper
About Artist
Jan Valik holds his MA in Fine Arts from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and MA in Painting from the Royal College of Arts in London. He was awarded a VUB Foundation Painting Prize 2016 in Slovakia, was shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021 and The Morrison&Foerster Art Prize 2023 in London. Valik has participated in Artist-in-Residence Programs at BankART in Yokohama, Japan; Mark Rothko Art Center in Latvia; and most recently at Megafield Reisdency in Beijing and Studio West in London. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Belgium, Austria, Slovakia, Czechia and Japan, as well as in group exhibitions in the UK and across Europe (Belgium, Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Latvia, France and Ireland), in China and Japan.
Artist Statement
A believer in the ephemeral, Jan Valik describes his paintings as fluid territories and thresholds – between space and atmosphere, land and memory, conjured through sensation, emotion, and immersion in the medium. Painting, as both process and result, is that threshold – the potentiality of space where layers, marks, and brushwork emerge as an ecosystem of its own, a space of dialogue between the ephemeral and the everlasting. Essentially rooted in traditions of both abstract and landscape painting and drawing life-long inspiration from both Eastern and Western philosophies and their respective insights into the nature of perception, Jan explores painting’s potential as a ecosystem of meanings, marks and sensations to arrive at a specific ambiguity sitting between state of mind and nature of the medium. True to the painting’s alchemical spirit and principles, the idea of transformation of the intangible into visual and conjured, his paintings traverse the interplay between external environments and internal feelings, creating fluid, evoked spaces and sensed atmospheres emerging from the essence of the medium.
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Titled: Invisible Connections 4
Artist: Jan Valik
Size: 21cm*30cm
Medium: watercolour and ink with collage on handmade paper
About Artist
Jan Valik holds his MA in Fine Arts from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and MA in Painting from the Royal College of Arts in London. He was awarded a VUB Foundation Painting Prize 2016 in Slovakia, was shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021 and The Morrison&Foerster Art Prize 2023 in London. Valik has participated in Artist-in-Residence Programs at BankART in Yokohama, Japan; Mark Rothko Art Center in Latvia; and most recently at Megafield Reisdency in Beijing and Studio West in London. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Belgium, Austria, Slovakia, Czechia and Japan, as well as in group exhibitions in the UK and across Europe (Belgium, Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Latvia, France and Ireland), in China and Japan.
Artist Statement
A believer in the ephemeral, Jan Valik describes his paintings as fluid territories and thresholds – between space and atmosphere, land and memory, conjured through sensation, emotion, and immersion in the medium. Painting, as both process and result, is that threshold – the potentiality of space where layers, marks, and brushwork emerge as an ecosystem of its own, a space of dialogue between the ephemeral and the everlasting. Essentially rooted in traditions of both abstract and landscape painting and drawing life-long inspiration from both Eastern and Western philosophies and their respective insights into the nature of perception, Jan explores painting’s potential as a ecosystem of meanings, marks and sensations to arrive at a specific ambiguity sitting between state of mind and nature of the medium. True to the painting’s alchemical spirit and principles, the idea of transformation of the intangible into visual and conjured, his paintings traverse the interplay between external environments and internal feelings, creating fluid, evoked spaces and sensed atmospheres emerging from the essence of the medium.
Each artwork is carefully packaged and shipped directly from the artist’s studio.
Tracking information will be provided once dispatched.
Delivery times may vary depending on destination and customs processing.
International orders may be subject to local import duties or taxes.
