Bára Bartošová

Bára usually starts with white canvas or pure silk, rarely working with commercial fabrics. She creates mostly intuitively, during the creative process the final “picture” of the quilt is gradually formed in her head before it takes its final form. For painting, she uses various techniques, watercolor technique, dry silk painting, gutta reservation, wax bandage; always depending on what effects she wants to achieve. Then she carefully quilts the entire image. She uses a lot of different colored threads both on the front side and on the reverse side of the quilt. Because she uses hand-batiked and dyed cotton on the back of the quilts, interesting images are created on the reverse side as well. You will find several dimensions on her quilts. At first you will be drawn to the main subject of the painting, but on closer inspection you will see many different details and elements in the background, as well as inside the main subject. They are incorporated into various parts so that they complement the whole with much-needed detail.