Liba
Biography
Liba (LIBA) is originally from the Czech Republic. She graduated from CUAP in Prague (MSc’88). Liba gathered inspiration for her future art works especially during the work for Podyji National Park.
Liba came to Canada in 1993. She studied at the Bow Valley College (Artstream Program) and at ACAD Calgary. Liba graduated in 2002 with President's Honour and BFA from painting. Since her graduation, Liba makes living as a freelance artist. She continues to explore painting through portraits and landscapes commissioned privately. Liba also runs art classes for all ages (LIBA -Life Is the Best Artist studio).
She is currently showing at Westlands Art Gallery in Cochrane. Liba is a member of Saatchi Gallery in London, Original Art Online Gallery in Dover and ArtistLane Gallery in Calgary.
She is also a member of Federation of Canadian Artists and CARFAC.
Academic History:
1998 - 2002 Alberta College of Art and Design, BFA Painting Major, Calgary
1998 - Bow Valley College, Artstream Program,Calgary
1983 - 1988 CUAP, Czech Republic-Prague, MSc Agro-biology
1978 - 1980 Post-graduate School, Prague, BA Environmental Studies
Artist Statement:
"...be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now." R. M. Rilke
As a former environmentalist, I am intrigued by the hands and their interaction within themselves and with nature. As an artist I am intrigued by the visual beauty and mystery of the hands and their surroundings.
I believe in the Carl G.Jung's saying: “Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain” Hands are for me the tools of mind and heart; an extention of the mysterious world that is hidden within us. Hands are not trained to distort thoughts and feelings.. Hands respond instinctively to the innermost feelings of one’s world and often reveal what the face would suppress. Hands are not Hypocrites.