20th March–17th April 2026

Tereza Horáček (b. 1997) studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (2016–2020).
Recent exhibitions include the Irving Open 2026, Irving Gallery, Oxford, January–February 2026; 'Small Plates', Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford, September 2025; 'Back To My Trees' curated by Kate Shooter, Terrace Gallery, London, August–September 2025; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025, London; and the Irving Open 2025, March–April 2025.
She lives and works in Oxford, UK.

Afterlight: A view of past events, and the fading light after a sunset

“My landscapes are imagined, or inspired from past paintings. I look at Dutch seventeenth-century painters and English eighteenth-century landscape painters. Through use of evocative colours, fluorescent orange backgrounds, loose washes, and gestural brushstrokes, I rework, layer, and scratch into the paint until I have a suggestion of a particular tree, lively clouds, a field. The land is almost always flat, leaving room in the picture plane for expansive skies and trees, which are often silhouetted and swaying. When I paint, I am often thinking about Jacob van Ruisdael’s trees: moody, modest, grand, oppressive and hopeful. I am painting landscapes that are familiar, yet timeless.”