Artist: Hynek Martinec
Born in the Czech Republic, Hynek Martinec graduated from the Academy of Fine Art, Prague in 2005. In 2003 he won the Academy’s Studio Prize. He has had solo exhibitions in Prague and Paris and currently works as a painter in both cities and London.
His works are in collections in Vienna, Miami, New York as well as the National Gallery Prague and the British Museum. His large portrait is of his girlfriend Zuzana Jungmanova in his Paris studio captured in microscopic facial close-up wearing sunglasses. The photographic precision of the painting results in striking detail in the execution of the sitter’s hair and skin tones and in the reflection in her sunglasses. She says of the finished work ‘when I look at my painted twin I get a frisson’.
Martinec continues his journey challenging his technique and subject matter from Portraits to Landscapes. If you are interested to commission a work by the artist please contact the gallery.