Tomáš Honz

One of the most demanded contemporary open -air players Tomáš Honz (*1989) characterizes adventure. He does not hesitate to travel far abroad, Taiwan, the Canary Islands of the Philippines, to Romania, Albania, Greece and Jordan, to climb in the mountains, paint inside the caves, create in bad weather, frost and rain or at night with a headlamp. However, it also often goes into nature more moderately in the footsteps of Czech landscape paints and still remains directly in cities, where it also paints exposed places (eg monuments and squares) without people. In addition to traditional themes, brownfields, ruins seek and generally close places with intense, often fleeting, atmosphere. In the studio, he focuses on fantasy images that have crystallized in cooperation with worldwide successful projects such as Magic The Gathering and Path of Exile.

In the Czech environment it has a stable base of private collectors, and it can also be found in the state collections of the Alšova South Bohemian Gallery or the Kutná Hora Gallery Felix Jenewein. He is one of the finalists of the prestigious Strabag Artward International (2021) and is the ART Prague laureate under 35 years (2020). An important exhibitions can be mentioned eg independent exhibition Prehistoric, fog, temples In the Rakovnický Rabas Gallery (2024) or collective projects Vanitas In Prague's Dox (2020) and Dawn - contemporary landscape painting in the East Bohemian Gallery in Pardubice (2018). PThe part of the studies was spent in the studio of prof. Jiří Lindovský (2009–2011) and the second part in the studio of prof. Michaela Rittstein (2012–2015) at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. During this period, the semester internship in the studio of prof. Zdeněk Beran (2012) as well as foreign studies in which he learned illustration in the US (2013) and calligraphy in Taiwan (2014).