My name is Václav Bednář and I am a visual artist.

I was drawn to art from early childhood. I loved to paint and I was very playful — something that has stayed with me to this day.

My grandfather, Václav Busta, owned a beautiful collection of antiques, and through him I grew up close to beautiful things. He instilled in me a sense of detail. I admired the old masters and dreamed that one day I, too, would be a painter. My grandfather was always my support, and that strengthened my confidence to follow my own path — even later, in times when the painter’s profession seemed deeply uncertain. Thanks to him, I bridged that period of agony: the choice between security and freedom. I realized that anyone who wants unconditional freedom can never have certainty. And the reverse is equally true.

My passion lies in free creation with an uncertain end — in searching for new paths with the necessary measure of courage and experiment. In experimental work, chance very often appears either as a co-author or as a signpost pointing toward new possibilities and forms.

This searching is a non-aggressive form of art, and aesthetics and sensitivity play a key role in it. The work then carries a strong charge even without aggressive devices such as defiance, shock, or provocation.

Each further step is so exciting that it would be unwise to stop. Besides, when you stay in one place, you risk wandering in circles. That is why playfulness matters so much — thanks to it I am never faithful to anything for long, and I never linger on whatever has just captivated me. The ideal is to enjoy it and then, at its best moment, to move on.

If I held on to something, it would soon abandon me anyway, and I would not find the next path… It is like a rolling hoop… it falls and never rises again. I have to work every day…

My activity, seemingly one-sided, offers a labyrinth of intuitive impressions and an affinity for kindred forms of activity in deeper understanding. That is why different artists, inventors, scientists, and other "madmen" always understand one another so well — people who, had they not had their own worlds and thought purely rationally, would never have created their works or made their discoveries, because they would have lacked the motive.

For me, the essential motive is the creative process itself, and my abstract worlds of shapes and colors are my refuge — a place where I escape from my own solitude.

Václav Bednář