16/06/2026
“Longing-Touha” 70cm x 100cm
This is a commission by a wonderful Jaroslava Samková and it’s proudly hanging in it’s new forever home now. ❤️🙏
I was asked to paint some birds on a larger canvas. I didn’t know exactly what I’m gonna paint until I took a lovely evening stroll at the wedding in a beautiful town Vodňany. I was captured by the beautiful sky with dramatic clouds (some looking like air elementals 🤭). I was looking up in awe and suddenly there were swallows everywhere, joyfully dancing above me. I just knew this is the view for the painting.
I believe when you are asked to paint for a specific person the painting comes up just right for them. And this time I got a confirmation again. For the lady I was painting this for, swallows have a special place in her hearth. She was a little girl looking at swallows, longing to do what they do. Travel somewhere and then come back home. She since the travelled the world and has many wonderful stories which she tells with the joy in her eyes.
Of course I didn’t know how symbolic swallows are for her. But I think something within me felt it. ☺️
I really love painting commissions so feel free to contact me if you need a painting too! (Don’t worry if you don’t know “what” if might figure itself out..🤭) It’s a great honour to be invited as an artist to create something you want to look at every day in your home. Thank you Jaroslava Samková ☺️❤️
