Jb Studio

Jiri Bures is one of Czech's leading artists whose work has attracted international acclaim and new young audiences. He was born in Prague in 1948 and he lived in the United States, Australia and Germany. Since 2004 he has lived mostly in Prague, also spending some time in London.
He speaks three languages and uses his multi-cultural heritage and experiences to explore and express through his art.
Jiri has won several awards and is represented in private and corporate collections in Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, UK, USA, Germany, Singapore, Canada and Japan.

Jiri Bures works of art transcend the commonplace to enter the realm of the sublime and
otherworldly. He develops teasing images that evoke happy moods and memories in us that are
inspired by life in the real world. Each image becomes a playground for the viewer; we interject
our personal revelations into his cheeky and humorous pictures. The narrative elements in his
compositions underscore the importance of seeing Jiri's paintings as images that contain stories;
the observer must view his work with some amount of imagination so as to acquire a personal
connection to each work.

Bures images are often figurative, organic, personal totems reflecting his travels, and his interest in music, animals and cartoons. In close view, they can become highly abstract. Bures develops his paintings without preconceptions, letting the paintings take form from a matrix of inner-outer dialog, observation, and chance discovery. The paintings record a mnemonic journey; a metaphor rich with possibilities of surprise and reiteration. Bures finds this his highly personal works general reveal the truth of a moment for him.

Jiri is an avant-garde artist whose artistic expression takes fantastic shape through his diverse oil and acrylic paintings, sculptures and glass. His paintings and sculptures range from abstract to realistic to impressionistic - all visionary interpretations from his imaginative soul.
"When I paint, I dip my brush in my soul...
Being an Artist is a life force, not a career choice. Each piece represents a fragment of my life's work. I present the world artistically as I see it, as I wish to see it, and occasionally as I once saw it. You see, it is my identity.
Without this expression of self, I am nothing. Through my art I give love."

Jiri Bures paintings present snapshots of contemporary life. His paintings are narrative in that they seem to be telling a story, but that story is open to the viewer’s interpretation. It is like watching a panned and scanned version of a widescreen film. There is a mesmerizing interface in his work between past and present………………………

His works aren’t monotonous, he always surprises spectators of his art with something new, intrigues and captivates them. His paintings, charged with a positive energy, always tell a story; and it’s up to the viewer to discover in the paintings his/her own story according to his/her imagination.
His paintings are not just decorative in style but they also talk to the viewer and bring to them something very pleasant and beyond words.