A significant representative of the Slovak contemporary fine arts, she followed the tradition of magic realism and surrealism in European and global art. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in the class of prof. Ján Mudroch (1949 – 1955). In 1956, she graduated from Summer School of Painting of the world-renowned Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg. She adopted her own manner of expression based on blending real and surreal pictorial elements.  Her paintings defile anonymous maiden figures, female torsi reminding fragments of solitary antique statues supplemented by countryside with low and high horizons, figures with dark...