Lenka Čermákova

(b. 1960) Czech Republic
Čermáková has been working with blown glass for more than a decade, using plaster moulds to obtain reliefs and texture, having started out working with painted glass.

The aesthetic and philosophical concept behind her works can best be described as ‘post-modern stylisation’. She achieves subtlety and delicacy in large works by adding a layer of coloured crystal and a matt finish.

Cermakova has a distinctive style and succeeds in capturing different emotions in each work: dignity, romance or simplicity. She achieves this by playing with space to create sculptures that are simple yet evocative. Given the lightness of expression she achieves, it is easy to forget just how physically demanding it is for her to make the plaster forms for her sculptures and for the glass blowers to form her pieces.

Public collections and commissions
— UMPRUM, Prague, Czech Republic