Vajnory have always lived with a traditional folk culture. At present, Viera Slezáková is also helping to create it, as she fell in love with local traditions as a schoolgirl when the women of Vajnory demonstrated egg decorating to students. Since then, she has been applying patterns to eggs herself, drawing on traditional local floral (flowers, leaves, buds, roses) and animal ornamentation (birds). Today, she uses the traditional Vajnorský material, kaučí (sieve), for decorating eggs, however, she also embellishes the eggs with colorful beads and in recent years she has been making them by combining beads with painted Vajnorský ornamentation as well. She decorates eggs of hens, ducks, geese, and ostriches. Initially, she made them at home for friends and family, later she also started cooperating with ÚĽUV. ÚĽUV artist Janka Menkynová advised her at their first meeting to reduce the number of colors and to try making Easter eggs in a more subtle color scheme. Based on this, Viera Slezáková today combines lighter and darker tones of one color (tone on tone) on the eggs or uses more contrasting combinations of a couple of colors, such as yellow with red or with green, for example.

The painted Vajnorský ornament, characterized by axial symmetry, is also developed in addition to Easter eggs in other areas. For children, she has prepared two coloring books with the most typical local patterns (Vajnorský pelican, birds, ears of wheat, flowers, roses, bees, grapes, etc.) and at the same time she paints ornaments on wooden spoons, jewelry boxes, cradles, furniture, and even on walls, as was customary in Vajnory in the past. Her large-scale works can be seen, for example, on the painted shield of the new Vajnorský cultural center, which is the result of the joint work of three artists, or on two walls with dimensions of 6 x 2 meters in the cellar of a private house, where she painted patterns in a more modern expression with white paint on a concrete surface.

In all her activities, she composes the decoration herself based on what she knows, sees, and feels. She brings her own attitude, her handwriting, her composition into the traditional form. The freedom that comes from such creation is what she enjoys and fulfills her. She could not and would not want to simply copy others. In recent years, she has also been focusing on bobbin lace. She primarily focuses on creating lace as a part of traditional folk costumes – whether for aprons, headscarves, or sleeves.

The current atmosphere in Vajnory is largely determined by the activities of many associations focusing on various areas of traditional culture (lace making, embroidery, egg decorating, whip making before Easter, musical and dance folklore, bridal headgear at weddings, brass band music, amateur theater). Viera Slezáková is an active member of one of them. She passes on her knowledge and skills to children, youth, and adults, for example, as a lecturer at the Summer School of Vajnorský Traditions in Vajnory, but also in nearby Bratislava as a teacher at a primary school and as a lecturer for children’s Easter creative workshops at the Regional Craft Center ÚĽUV.

She presents her work not only in Slovakia but also at exhibitions in Austria, thus presenting and preserving the heritage of our folk traditions beyond the borders of our country.