Our museum hosts special exhibitions by international, national, as well as local and regional artists in our Stott Explorers Gallery. Often these artists are generous enough to donate select pieces from their shows and private collections to help support the museum.

Ivana Buttry is a Czech landartist specialized for landscape-architecture and designing gardens. She designed several successful projects and exhibited original photos of her premiere LandArt experience, LANDSCAPE THAT NEVER SLEEP as a fundraiser for the museum.

At the show's close, Buttry donated all 60 of the original photos to the museum to continue her support through sales in our Osa's Ark Museum Store and at auctions such as these.

This auction item is titled "Colorful Harmony" and measures 11 7/8" by 17 7/8."

Brief Background on the Artist:

During her studies in France, Buttry came across "landart" for the first time in 2004. She is inspired freely by the work of French artists such as Emmanuel Plume, Laurent Gerbouin, and Yoann Crépin. She creates installations in nature using a rather small scale, mainly because it better explains the uniqueness and singularity of each object. After every installation, the work itself is never preserved but in her photography. It is left to environmental conditions and gradually erodes from existence. The composition art of Ivana Buttry tells non-uttered stories hidden in the landscape of each of us.

Ivana cooperates with Czech broadcasting corporation and currently she is teaching Landscape architecture at Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague.