Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:41:53 +0200https://english.radio.cz/portrait-artist-and-painter-marie-gabankova-8544859© 2026 Radio Prague International Marie Gabánková is a noted portrait artist, painter and teacher. She was born in Ostrava and left Czechoslovakia with her family shortly after the Soviet invasion of 1968, aged just seventeen. She has lived in Canada ever since and has had a book of her works published in England, and had such noted figures as singer-songwriter Karel Kryl and writer Josef Škvorecký sit down for portraits. When I met up with her I began by asking Marie what memories she has of her youth in Czechoslovakia. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/kryl_gabankova.jpg?timestamp=1591184567 https://english.radio.cz/portrait-artist-and-painter-marie-gabankova-8544859 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9