Artist

Danka Gocova is an accomplished Slovak architect; she moved to Canada in 2001 with her husband and three children. She studied Architecture at University of Technology in Bratislava where she earned a Master’s Degree. Throughout the communist years in Slovakia, she also secretly studied and specialized in Sacred Art. After the revolution in 1989 she was able to pursue a two year PhD in Sacral Architecture.

Danka worked as a restoration architect and was a team member at the architectural council in her hometown of Michalovce. Later she devoted most of her time to creating sacred architecture, art and illustrations. She designed new churches in Smigovce and Hriadky, several reconstructions and new interiors in other churches and glass paintings.

While in Canada, she designed:

• The interior of the Waterloo Catholic District School Board’s St. Jerome Chapel (with the glass-paintings and icon of St.Jerome).

• The St. Anthony Daniel relief cross in the WCDSB.

• The paintings for the Rosary Slideshow used in the WCDSB.

• The Fatima Cross for Our Lady of Fatima School.

• Illustrations for Christian children's books.

For the past three years, she has been creating and working with the figures and displays for Spotlights on Christ's Life.

To video a video with her designs, please follow this link.

Link to article: https://www.therecord.com/life/clay-figurines-illustrate-the-life-of-jesus/article_796fabbf-b756-5dbe-93e6-5c7e2bed6232.html