GABRIELA POMPLOVA

     Has been actively painting since 1993. Her passion for using paint brushes and colors reaches back to her childhood. Her most favorite drawing used to be a running or grazing horse with a long fluttering mane. School teachers had always encouraged her to participate in a variety of art shows and school handcraft competitions.

She graduated in Fine Arts in The Czech Republic, Europe in 1994. During her pregnancy she began to paint in oils. By trial and error, she penetrated into the alchemy of using oil paints and stretching and priming canvas by her own hands.
Her first solo exhibition was held in 1995 when she was enchanted with The Africans and their colorful and vivid ornaments and designs. The African culture continued to be on her mind as well as her canvases for another five years.  It was predominantly a portrait of "a white smile" or a long, lean figure with a bulged tummy, big eyes and full lips.

From 1996-1999, she ran her own business as an interior designer in The Czech Republic. She left her marks in a number of places, primarily by transforming the interiors and exteriors of restaurants and family houses.
In 2000, she carried out three painting projects within the UCLA campus. It consisted of three large mural paintings which were her first attempts to establish herself as an interior designer overseas.
In 2004, she moved down under, to New Zealand, where she quickly gained an affection for the Kiwis. With enthusiasm and joy of painting, she exhibited her paintings in several major Art Shows on The North Island.

New Zealand's beauty of nature influenced her tremendously so that her style changed significantly, leaving behind the bushmen.  She immerged into a new wave of inspiration of the higher power, and through painting, she began to pursue her spiritual quest for the unknown.

Besides her paintings in oils, she successfully makes her individual, unique styled handcrafts. The quintessence of those smily faces and big eyes is to bring a joy to every one who owns a small oil painting on a wooden kitchen board, crochetted cardboard, wooden clasp, brush, chest, spoon...it could be an endless list. She literally paints on everything that comes her way.
                                                                                                                                                           

Her handcraft  is seen only at popular art markets in New Zealand and The Czech Republic, however, now you will get a chance to see a wide range of her lively pictures online!         

www.gabrielapomplova.com  (205) 515-0527

 

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