Markéta Šenkyřík

Marketa Senkyrik is a Czech born artist, illustrator and bookbinder living and working in South of Italy since October 2020.

Works

Close, watercolor on Hayle Mill Hot Press 145gsm, 79x57cm, 2020

Modrà Krajina (Paesaggio Blu), acrylic and blue chalk on canvas, 40x60cm, 2023

09/04/24 - Bernalda, Io e Dino come Paesaggio Tropicale; acrylic and watercolor on canvas - 50x35cm, 2024

è vero: chi vive di pura immaginazione, prima o poi impazzisce. Acrylic and watercolor on plywood, Ø29cm, 2021

Breathe In Breathe Out, watercolor on Hayle Mill Hot Press 145gsm, 79x57cm, 2020

Bernalda, acrylic and watercolor on canvas, 2020, 35x25cm

The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. Marlen Haushofer, The Wall, p.180, acrylic and silver pigment on canvas, 2024, 35x25cm

Bio

Markéta Šenkyřík, a bookbinder and illustrator originally from the Czech Republic, but who has lived and worked in Bernalda since 2020. She studied book design in Ostrava, and Belli Arti in Clermont-Ferrand in France. Then the arrival in London where she worked for Shepherd’s Bookbinders and co-managed an independent art space, 139Artspace. As an illustrator, her work includes the ‘limited edition of 24 illustrated booklets used as script presentations for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis film project, commissioned by the director. Her latest exhibition, curated by art historian Merisabell Calitri, is “I Dreamed of Being Your Native Landscape,” which was exhibited last May in the rooms of the Bernalda Municipal Art Gallery of Modern Art.