Michaela Vrbová Trypesová

Michaela was born in 1978 in Prague in Czech republic.  After graduation at the grammar school with an art focus in 1996, she continued her education at work, the field of woodcarving at the Secondary vocational school in Prague, which she completed in 2002. In 2010-2013 she studied Univerzity of Tomáš Baťa in Zlín, shoe design, but did not finish the school.

She replaced various professions, worked as an assistant to sales in a shop with home accessories A La Maison, as an adjuster  and sales assistant at Dantik, in Merlet's costume rental, as an office manager for architects "Schindlerseko". She danced for over twenty years with  group of historical dances Hortus Gratiae, and thanks to this, she began to sew historical costumes. This has been dealing with until  now. She  is currently freelance.  She likes art, books, movement, forest, mountains, sun and rain. She has got 17 years old son and lives and works in Prague, sometimes at a cottage in the Jizera Mountains.

Statement

„The wood is the closest  of all the materials to me. It helps me extremely in my artistic intentions. With humility and joy, I accept how it cooperates with me. And when it refuses my cooperation, it is always just about the lack of my attention and susceptibility. Its diversity and variability are endless. I also welcome all its seeming shortcomings, such as cracks, knots, rot and roads on live visitors. These are records of its life, old age and death. As in humans. Experiences, values, thoughts, emotions, desires, doubts, chimeras, pains, injuries, secrets… all leaves traces. And I am interested in…“

Education

1996- Gymnázium s výtvarným zaměřením, Evropská 33, Praha 6

2002- Pomaturitní studium SOU Podkovářská, Praha 9, obor umělecký řezbář