Born in Prague,influenced by old master painters and traditional oil painting techniques. Has full time studio practice in Sydney Australia'Marcella Kaspar delights in the fragility of nature and its fluctuations. Kaspar's paintings are studies in tone,light and color,dancing on the surface of a fishpond,a swelling ocean or a peony.And while her subject matter harks back to the impressionists,her technique goes back even further to the 17th century master's use of layered oils on linen" Annemarie Lopez