Who is

Viola Hortová is a mixed media artist and creative, who undertook her art education in Prague prior to relocating to the beautiful South West of England. She graduated from photography and graphic design before continuing her studies, reflecting on her love for landscapes, with architecture and landscape architecture and became a successful landscape architect, and artist.

She first found her love for painting landscapes and nature when she joined the National Gallery’s plein air painting retreats under the guidance of academic painter Milan Perić, amongst others. Here she learned the fundamental principles of capturing landscapes in her paintings, and her work was hand picked to be exhibited in a temporary  plain-air display in the National Gallery in Prague. She also took part in exhibitions with her photography, photographic documentary books, and other artistic work.

Viola runs art journaling workshops and livestreams and believes that intuitive art making and capturing nature around us can be not only beautiful and therapeutic, but also very transformative to our view on life.