Marta Potfajová

The main street in Zlatovce is home to several artists. They live literally a few meters apart. After the sculptor and the restorer, the award led us to an artist and pedagogue who was enchanted by textiles. Good thing we didn’t postpone the visit, because the next day, the landlord went to the mountains.

Marta Potfajová is a graduate of the Academy of Arts and Industrial Arts in Prague and has taught students art, figurative drawing and writing on today’s ŠUPka in Trenčín. Many young artists and artists who found a role model and support went through her hands.

In addition to works that are based on textile material or techniques of its processing, it also focuses on illustrations of children’s literature and its pictures can be found in the magazine for the smallest Sparrow.

My heartbeat was weaving, but I wasn’t weaving anymore. It’s a retreat, people won’t pay anymore.

In her living room, we were interested in a tapestry reminiscent of a torn curtain, but it was woven from paper, from a hundred years old score. Its production took two months.

There are now such alternatives that it is woven out of everything possible, but it is not even a long time for two months in the tapiséria, explains the author.

Next to the hanging image of the intersecting reeds of grass. It was created by the technique of screen printing, with which the artist met at the school where she taught. Perhaps it was this image that gave her the idea of appreciating a person who is famous by promoting screen printing in art.

At the farewell Mrs. Marta gives us both two beautiful illustrations. It is hot and in the tartars twice as much, but the visit to a nice and generous artist has perfectly balanced the discomfort.