Gallerist Andrea Landovská: Faces and Landscapes
November 21, 2025 / 10:00 AM
A love of fabrics, yarns, threads, and colors led Andrea Landovská to study textiles and eventually to creating quilts in which the worlds of landscape, theatre, and her personal artistic journey intertwine.
Because of my love for fabrics, yarns, threads, and colors, I went to study at the Textile High School (SPŠ textilní) in Brno. I was lucky — within the art-focused class, I was accepted into the fashion design program, where I learned to sew. Subjects such as drawing, design, basic painting, and the history of art laid the foundation for my lifelong passion.
Although I studied Film Studies at Charles University, my professional path led me to theatre — I work in the Documentation Department of the Theatre Institute in Prague. I can pursue my interest in theatre costumes within an amateur theatre group in the northern Bohemian village of Kytlice.
Landscape imagery fascinates me. I have countless photos — many of them similar: a meadow, field, forest, or path below, and the sky above. The wide horizon or the rugged edge of mountain peaks, the line where the earth meets the sky — these are the images I try to grasp and stitch into my quilts.
In my gallery, I would like to present a few older works related to the theme of landscape, as well as new ones. After various artistic detours, during which I needed to try every possible technique, I gradually return to the very essence of patchwork — sewing together colorful pieces. Yet these pieces bear my personal imprint: from different dyeing methods, stamping, printing, and painting, to fabrics printed using gel plate techniques.
Faces will be represented by my portraits, each created for a specific theme — some using the watercolour method, others combining various techniques to support the intended concept of the textile artwork.