Painter Roman Franta (*1962) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague at the studios of Bedrich Dlouhý and Aleš Veselý. For two years, he also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute in the US. His paintings, photographs and occasional installations have a distinctive style; he is intrigued by the life of plants and animals, using them to create scrummages which then produce color effects and form particular objects in his paintings.

Roman Franta accentuates composition with a sense of detail which is primarily seen in the bodies of beetles forming the composition. He often employs an expressive painting technique enriched with a dose of an ironic world view and symbols of human ...