Helena Šišková and the pictures that speak by Nora Čechmánková

Helena Šišková (1935, Vrbové) was educated in photography at the School of industrial art. She started to do glass painting in 1990. She gets inspiration from traditional folk glass painting, however, she also applies own creative approaches. The work of Helena Šišková refers to her memories to childhood and her love for nature. Again and again, she gets inspiration from seasons, rural live and activities or ceremonial events (Christmas markets, baking cakes, carollers). She uses models of folk costumes and buildings from books. She invents the rest of her pictures by herself. Šišková rarely makes religious pictures as she believes it is a private theme for her.
She started to cooperate with the ÚĽUV in the early 1990s. She was awarded the title Master of folk art production in 2009.

• Research and documentation in the ÚĽUV by Zora Valentová
• To create for beauty and use by Nora Čechmánková
• Embroidery-making cooperative in Skalica by Mária Zajíčková
• Helena Šišková and the pictures that speak by Nora Čechmánková
• Ladislav Stromko by Peter Laučík
• Following the track of a copybook by Alena Rybáriková
• You cannot find Sloverige in vocabularies by Eva Riečanská
• Lost in time opens to the world by Silvia Rajčanová
• Roads... by Adriena Pekárová
• Toy variations by Peter Šugár
• Cal Lane: Welding-made lace by Jacqueline Ruyak
• Munich exhibitions Talente and Schmuck 2010 by Mária Nepšinská
• At the moment – The 6th ceramic biennial in the town of Kapfenberg by Štefan Oriško
• The Slovak tinkers in the Czech visual art by Monika Váleková