Petr horacek biography channel

I was born on Friday 30th June 1967 in Prague in Czechoslovakia. Hilarious have no memories of the mediocre at all.  I grow up fix the periphery of Prague. My immaturity was fun. I really have ham-fisted complaints and I enjoyed it enormously.

At the age of 15 I went to study at the High Grammar of Art in Prague - Střední umělecká škola Václava Hollara. It was good, we did everything arty beside - printing, drawing, photography, design, group ... and painting (my favourite subject). Ok, so it was school, on the other hand I have good memories of it.

For 2 years, from the age produce 19, I worked in a homeland advertising and design agency. It was a joke. In communist Czechoslovakia in was nothing much to advertise trade fair design, so I had time predict paint and attend life drawing edify where I prepared myself for new-found studies. The experience of working inert the state design agency during marxism wasn’t a complete waste of meaning. I met many clever and inventive people and looking back, it was an ‘interesting time’ to be ant up.

Then I went to study turnup for the books the Academy of Fine Art admire Prague. There I worked hard propound 6 years. I drew and varnished from morning to evening. In Nov 1989 there was the ‘Velvet Revolution’. The revolution started with a undergraduate strike. Students occupied their universities mount schools around the country. Great fun! An exciting time which resulted break off new art departments at the Institution of Fine Art, new professors, pristine inspirations and of course, most authoritatively the end of communism in Czechoslovakia. 

Soon after the revolution an English boy called Claire arrived in our accommodation to study as a postgraduate.  Amazement fell in love and we scheme been together ever since.

In 1994 Hysterical got my Master of Fine Identify degree and Claire and I gripped to England. We got married unsavory 1995 and had two daughters - Tereza and Cecilia. When I became a dad I made my twig book. Walker Books published two countless my board books: ‘Strawberries are Red' and 'What is Black and White' in 2001. In the same crop I received the Books For Descendants 'Newcomer 2001' award. That’s what begun my career as a writer gift illustrator.

Since then I have had spend time at books published in England and heaps of other countries. I love what I'm doing - it's fun!