Lucia Šlamiarová
Michal Melicherčík comes from Hriňová and lives and works in an outlying settlement in his parents’ house. No-one in his family worked with crafts, but his found his path thanks to his father, who enjoyed drawing with him as a child. He spent his holidays in a village with his grandparents, observing the surrounding rural world, drawing everything he could see, from the landscape to his grandfather’s shepherd’s whip or axe. His parents thus decided to develop his talents and enrolled him in primary art school. However, what fascinated him most was not painting, but rather working with his hands with clay, wood and wire.