Radek Smach is a Czech contemporary painter, born in 1976 in Opava, Czech Republic. Working primarily in abstract expressionism and minimalism, his paintings are about a clear state of mind and the present moment, focusing on the impermanence and conditionality of phenomena as colours mix and everything shifts and changes.
Smach works with handcrafted tools, drawn to trying new techniques and procedures, and builds his paintings up in multiple layers with structure. He describes painting as a state where painter, painting and process become one - no expectations, hands moving spontaneously to capture what is happening right now. It's from this present-moment state of mind that his compositions emerge.
He studied marketing and economics at VSB-TU University Ostrava before turning to painting in 2011, training under academic painters Mimoza Botsin and Petra Raška, and later taking a course with British painter David John Lloyd.