Eva Husarik
(Kovačica, 1942)

Eva Husarik was born on December 2, 1942 in Kovačica where she finished secondary school. She is a housewife but recently she started painting on a professional level. Under her older sister’s Alžbeta Čižikova influence she developed an early interest for painting. She started to use oil paint in 1969, which was also the first time she exhibited in October in Kovačica event. That same year she became a member of the Gallery of Naïve Art in Kovačica.

Her motifs, mainly cheerful, are taken from everyday life: she portrays weddings, family ceremonies, christening, children in the playground, but also geese and working in fields….She often paints rich interiors with embroidered pillows, colorful beds and walls. A frequent motive in her painting is still life, especially flowers. Something that you would recognize her by is her emphasis on certain details especially with bright red, pink or blue colors.

Since she pays great attention to detail, her paintings also have an ethnographic value.

Till now, Eva has had over 30 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 300 collective ones in Serbia and abroad. For her overall work up until now, she was awarded many prizes. One of those is an honorable award for lifetime achievement which is awarded by prince Juraj Radzivil-Anoskin, the head of Slovakian aristocratic society.

“..with great joy, I paint red ripe apples which resemble cheeks of Kovačica’s beauties, winter nights with big full moon…’’

Eva Husarik's artworks in the fund of Gallery of naive art:

  1. The youth, 40×60, 1975, 8/575
  2. Christmas Eve, 40×59, 1970, 10/577
  3. Guarding the vineyards, 58×68, 1969, 105/672
  4. Going to church, 68×44, 1986, 210
  5. Going to the fair in the winter, 45×30, 1988, 234
  6. At the station, 63×44, 1987, 245
  7. Winter, 40×60, 1991, 304
  8. Spinning wheel 69×44, 1987, 273
  9. Peasant room, 60×40, 1990, 296
  10. Bleaching cloth, 40×60, 1992, 314
  11. On the bridge, 40×60, 1975, 9/576
  12. Christmas Eve II, 40×60, 1993, 320
  13. On the vineyard, 60×40, 1994, 335
  14. Sunflower, 60×40, 1995, 354
  15. Christmas Eve III, 40×60, 1996, 375
  16. Girls funeral, 70×50, 1996, 391
  17. The sun above Kovačica, 35×60, 1998, 405
  18. At the blacksmith, 45×60, 1999, 423
  19. Red tulip, 45×60, 2000, 440
  20. Wedding, 50×60, 2001, 454
  21. Christmas singers, 50×70, 2002, 469
  22. The white saturday, 50×60, 2003, 486
  23. Playing in front of the house, 50×75, 2004, 507
  24. The Kovačicas band „Rosička“, 40×70, 2005, 518
  25. Apple harvest, 50×60, 2006, 534
  26. Secret baptism, 50×60, 2007, 549
  27. Thirsty animals, 50×60, 2008, 555
  28. Christmas tree, 60×50, 2009, 571
  29. Sledding, 50×60, 2009, 581
  30. Only I am alone, 60×40, 2011, 539
  31. Playing with small geese, 40×60, 2011, 603
  32. Scared horse, 60×50, 2013, 619
  33. Harvest, 60×50, 2013, 628
  34. In the field, 50×60, 2016, 652
  35. Bleaching canvas, 50×60, 2018
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