Ondrej Zimka was born in Slovakia in 1937.

"Zimka is an artist with a gift of apprehending and envisioning in limitless, epic and poetic terms, a world in which the most diverse spaces, recollections, illusions, perspectives, sensibilities, facts, and fabrication overlap. It is a gift most in evidence in the enchanting paintings he executes on wooden boards of all sizes, and even on stones"