“I enjoy creating vibrant and playful surrealistic images,” says Adka ("Andrea Jones"), whose engaging paintings certainly live up to that description. Inspired by the colorful folk art of her native Slovakia, the artist paints her whimsical depictions of birds, faces and cityscapes in a rainbow of bright, saturated shades. She uses ink and acrylics to make these images, giving them a high degree of definition and clarity. Eyes may shine with a glass-like gleam or patterns have a kaleidoscopic quality. But the acrylics are also used to create softly modulated backgrounds. Adka’s subjects often look as if they are floating on those backgrounds, lending her work a surprising sense of three-dimensional space.
The works communicate a strong sense of movement — a group of buildings will seem to be in motion just as much as a flying bird. Music is also an influence on the artist, and instruments and notes move among the other subjects she depicts. Adka makes these many elements work comfortably with each other, creating a happy, harmonic universe.