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 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), and “Mountain and Forest” (2007). Her work has also been exhibited by Visual Arts Mississauga, The ACA Gallery ( Toronto ), The Heliconian Club ( Toronto ), as well as in Brampton , Stratford , and Odense , Denmark .