The art

Being Mana

Frantisek Strouhal· archival print of the original oil print

A woman stands in quiet profile, fully present. The image evokes Being Mana, the silent power of authenticity, where presence alone becomes connection.

Sending it as a gift?

Your words travel with the print, on paper, in the parcel.

Printed to order, framed in solid hardwood, shipped ready to hangPacked with care and tracked to your door. Postage is worked out at checkout Questions answered by a person: info@gsuw.org

Being Mana is also on scarves, kimonos and more, made to order by Le Galeriste. See the wearable art

Frantisek Strouhal is an Associate member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, with fourteen solo exhibitions and work in private collections in Canada, the United States and Europe. In 2026 he was recognized with an international award for painting. His room, and the record

What arrives

  1. 1Your print, made after you order it. Nothing sits in a warehouse waiting.
  2. 2Stretched on wooden bars and set in a solid hardwood floater frame, so the canvas sits just inside the wood with a shadow around it.
  3. 3The hanger is already fitted. It goes on the wall the day it lands.
  4. 4Packed flat-boxed and tracked. If it arrives damaged, send a photograph and it is replaced.

How Frantisek makes the originals

Frantisek photographs the model on a 4x5 camera with black and white film, develops the negative in the darkroom and scans it. In Photoshop he builds a collage from the portrait and images he has collected of landscapes, architecture and objects, then prints it as a digital negative at the size of the finished picture. Watercolour paper is soaked twice in a gelatin solution, dried for a day, and sensitized under dim light. The negative is contact printed onto it under ultraviolet light, leaving a faint image called the matrix. Then lithography inks in different colours are dabbed onto the whole surface with a stag-foot brush, layer upon layer like a tapestry, across three to four weeks.

Watch him make one, in his studio

Being ManaFrom $150.00