About
Radka is a Czech-born visual artist based in the UK whose practice explores transformation, liminality, memory and the spaces between what has been and what is becoming. Her journey into art developed through figurative painting before gradually moving towards abstraction, allowing colour, gesture, texture and surface to carry emotional and experiential meaning. Her work often combines layered paint, subtle mark-making, fragments of asemic writing and elements of gold, creating paintings that shift between the intimate and the expansive. Radka completed a BA (Hons) Fine Art and went on to study MA Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her recent practice investigates whether transformation can be made visible through painting, not as a fixed narrative but as something sensed and experienced. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions across the UK and in Londonand her developing practice continues to explore painting as a space of transition, presence and possibility.
Project overview
Between What Was and What Forms
Between What Was and What Forms-is a body of large-scale paintings exploring transformation, liminality and the experience of being between states. Rather than illustrating a specific narrative, the work considers whether transformation itself can become visible through painting. Layers of colour, shifting surfaces, fragments of gold, asemic writing and partially formed geometric structures create spaces that feel simultaneously emerging and dissolving. The paintings move through different emotional and visual states, from deep blues and celestial darkness to muted neutrals, crimson and pale, almost weightless surfaces. Across the series, recurring words and fragments - “between / what / was / and / what forms” - act as a quiet thread, suggesting transition without fixing its meaning. The project approaches painting as an experience rather than an explanation: a place where uncertainty, memory, becoming and possibility can coexist and where the viewer is invited to encounter their own sense of transition.
A threshold between states, The Blue Gate explores the moment of transition where one thing has ended but what comes next has not yet fully formed. Layers of blue, gesture, fragmented marks and traces of gold create a space that feels both expansive and uncertain. The work introduces the recurring word “between”, beginning the wider journey through liminality and transformation that unfolds across the series.
**Lotus of the Stars** Mixed media on canvas, 150 × 100 cm, 2026 *Lotus of the Stars* explores emergence within uncertainty. A celestial field of deep blues surrounds a partially disrupted geometric form, suggesting something simultaneously forming and dissolving. The lotus-like structure becomes a point of orientation within an expansive, shifting space, while the recurring word *“what”* continues the sequence: *between / what / was / and / what forms*. The painting considers transformation not as a destination, but as an unfolding process.
