Works 2003-2010

2003–2006: Beginnings – Drawing, Art School, and First Attempts

Tereza Sklovská began her artistic path in the structured environment of a Czech elementary art school (ZUŠ), where she was taught the fundamentals – perspective, proportion, ellipses, and composition. She worked with charcoal, red chalk, and pencil.

Still lifes and landscapes drew her in – silent objects and the spatial relationships between them. While others leaned toward portraiture and figure studies, she felt more at home among shapes, shadows, and light than human faces.

She completed portraits because she had to, but she was always drawn to places, things, and atmospheres rather than people.

 

2006–2010: Secondary School of Glass – Layers, Technique, and Escapes into Painting

At the Secondary School of Glass, she underwent rigorous technical training: enamel, vitreous painting, hydro glaze, gilding with gold and platinum, engraving, stained glass, sandblasting, pen drawing on glass, and experiments with structure and foil.

At the same time, she kept painting outside of school. Every Friday evening, returning home after classes, she would retreat to her quiet space and paint freely – no assignments, no judgment.

While school built her technical skill, these late-night sessions shaped her inner language.

Art was never just a hobby for her. It was a visceral need, an internal pressure. Even then, it was clear that creation was not optional – it was survival.