About the Heart as about the Stone, Pulsating and Trembling In her art Jana Farmanová devotes herself solely to painting. Since 1998 she has gradually acquired a unique public. She focused on art even in the difficulty period up to 2005, when this medium was not at the centre of interest of the professional community, and continuously since 2005, during which time her professional and lay following has grown, but her work does not relate to and is not thematically or formally connected with the rise of so-called new painting. There are themes that the artist revisits repeatedly because they rank among those she deals with most and the artist makes no secret of the fact that their images and situations are drawn from her own private sphere – adolescence, changing life decades, the transition from childhood into a woman or man. What appeals to her and is a constant motivation in her work is the ambivalence that unites individual themes and phenomena: innocence – responsibility, uninterrupted play - obligation and so on. The personal preoccupation with relationships and the associated ambivalences of breakup, separation, union, and rediscovery are also inexhaustible sources of metaphorical images that are part of her recent cycle of watercolours About the Heart (2011) and they are also one of the basic themes in the current exhibition.