JANA SKARECKY, ARTIST
Jana Skarecky was
born in the Czech Republic and came to Canada at the age of
ten. In the visual realm she works mostly in the medium of
acrylics. She has also worked with watercolours, especially
with the veil painting technique. She is a member of the Art
Section of the Toronto Heliconian Club.
Besides being a painter, Jana is a composer whose works have
been performed on four continents. She teaches at the Royal
Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and in Mississauga. She finds
working as a composer and an artist a stimulating
combination. Working with an idea in both the medium of
music and that of painting can spark something new in each
area. Many of her paintings were created in parallel with
her compositions. One could say she paints music.
Concerts featuring Jana's
compositions are often accompanied by displays of her art.
Her paintings of mountains and forests were exhibited
at a performance of her opera about Emily Carr, and her
exhibition “Healing of the Earth” was accompanied by a
concert of her compositions related to this theme.
Jana’s series of paintings entitled
"Veils", created in conjunction with her
composition "One More Veil that Falls Away” for cello
and piano, were displayed at a concert featuring the
premiere of this composition.
Since
2003 there have been annual exhibitions of Jana’s
paintings at the Adamson Estate in Mississauga -- “And all
the stars flowered in the sky” (2003), “Veils” (2004),
“Healing of the Earth” (2005), “Circles of Life”
(2006), “Mountain and Forest” (2007), "Fire and Sun"
(2008), "SunFire" (2009), "Play of
Light" (2010), and currently "Earth Arising"
(2011). In 2011 Visual Arts Mississauga presented
her exhibition "Water Music", paintings and photographs
inspired by water. Jana's work has
also been exhibited by the ACA
Gallery (Toronto), The Heliconian Club (Toronto), as
well as in Brampton, Stratford, and Odense, Denmark.
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List of Recent Available Acrylic Paintings by Jana
Skarecky
Title
Size
Price
Bridal Veil Falls, NZ (2011)
36” x 30” $800
Bowen Falls, NZ 1 (2011)
16" x 20
"
$400
Bowen Falls, NZ 2 (2011)
16" x 20
"
$400
Aquamarine 1
(2010)
16" x 20
" $400
Aquamarine 2
(2010)
16" x 20
" $400
Aquamarine 3
(2010)
16" x 20
" $400
Aquamarine 4
(2010)
16" x 20
" $400
“And all the stars flowered in the sky” 6 (2010)
30” x 24” $700
Luminous Night(2010)
30” x 24” $700
High Flight (2010)
24” x 30” $700
Sunlight on Clouds (2010)
24” x 30” $700
Sky over Alps 1: Monte Rosa (2010)
30” x 24”
$700
Sky over Alps 2: Liskamm (2010)
30” x 24” $700
Sky over Alps 3: Castor and Pollux (2010)
30” x 24” $700
Sky over Alps Triptych
30" x 72"
$1700
Autumn Light (2009)
16” x 20”
$400
Stars Flowering, Red and Gold (2008)
30” x 24”
$700
Fire Dance 2 (2008)
30” x 24”
$700
Dance of Earth and Sky (2008)
30” x 24”
$700
Tyger, Tyger (2008)
24” x 20”
$500
Castor and Pollux (2008)
16” x 20”
$400
Sky and Sea (2008)
30” x 36”
$700
Matterhorn 1 (2007)
30” x 24” $700
Matterhorn 2 (2007)
30” x 24”
$700
Matterhorn 3 (2007)
30” x 24”
$700
Forest, Green and Gold 1 (2007)
30” x 24”
$700
Forest, Green and Gold 2 (2007)
30” x 24”
$700
Future Memory (2007)
16” x 20”
$400
Dream Flower (2007)
10” x 8”
$200
The Rose (2007)
8” x 10”
$200