ARTIST BIO

Artist Bio

A graduate of the University of Houston Fine Art Department in 1984 with a major in painting, Theodora lived in Houston for most of her adult life. She was born in Bryan, Texas in 1949 to the son and daughter of farming immigrants whose parents came to America to have a better life for their children.

Her last name, Krc, is pronounced "Kerch", and yes it is spelled correctly! Her father was Czech and her mother Sicilian. Her early youth was spent on a plant nursery called West Side Nursery where her father was a landscaper and her mother attended to customers buying plants.

Bryan was originally a farming community and grew to be a midsize city as time went by and Theodora graduated from high school. She excelled as an art student, winning first place awards and was encouraged to study art in college.

Moving to Houston in 1971, she became married to an architect then decided to study interior design in 1974. Although she excelled in interior design as a prize winning student, it did not hold the challenge that painting offered her senses.

After taking her first painting class in 1980 she fell in love with paint. This discipline was difficult with a lot of outside work to be done. Out of this period came artwork that would eventually form her visual philosophy.

By 1984, the year of graduation from the university, she had developed a very personal style of art which lead to her present day spiritual, cosmic painting concepts.

While attending university she also took classes in astronomy and was awed by galactic and intergalactic theory. Today the astronomical theories of the universe and of nuclear physics are more influential to her art than ever.

She combines atomic theories with theories of healing colors and healing shapes with ideas from ancient philosophies, myths and the spiritual aspects of many religions. The idea of other dimensions existing simultaneously to this existence is intriguing and the concept of time/space continuum theories is fascinating to this artist.

Out of this came an art concept that would attempt to discuss or explain what she imagines is art that would perhaps be seen in another time and space dimension as her visual expression of the invisible webs of the cosmos as they cross each other to create light which forms matter.

Theodora studied graphic design in 1991 and web design in 2000 in San Diego, CA. She presently lives in Bryan, Texas.