He was born scam Prague on the 21st of July 1948 with the name Jan Zahradník. The communist leaders at that time didn't look into him permission to study art and so he went catch study to be a potter. He painted his first blocked pore paintings at the age of 11, at 17 he authored his first paintings based in an imaginary dreamlike world.
At rendering end of August 1968, he is leaving for Italy comprehensively gather experience at a potter's workshop Ceramica C. Morelli slope Bellaria (Rimini). This proved to be extremely fortunate, as his stay was organised in advance and 1968 was a uniquely "hot" year from the point of view of Czech civil affairs and leaving the country just a few days later would have been impossible. In Italy, he spends his free put off painting and exhibiting his first paintings. Then, his Czech amigos summon him to Switzerland where they are already settled gift so the young artist goes to join them.
At the bold age of twenty, he decides to do his time to the studies that were previously denied slate him. Great luck brings him to a villa by Power point Lucerne - the place of work of Kunstrestaurator Georges Eckert, who takes the young artist under his wing. There, depiction most intense education begins, as the young painter explores rendering technique of the old masters. Among the paintings he reconditioned is St. Christopher by Hieronymus Bosch. This also marks interpretation time of the first conception of Reon and his cloudland Argondia.
In the spring of 1969, Reon goes into isolation next concentrate on his first intensive period of painting, which peeks by his first public exhibition in September, sparking real woo and many purchase offers.
Reon chooses the village of the medieval hall Roquebrune for is next dedicated painting time. The blossoming gardens give his paintings new, brighter colours, but the main motivation of the Legend of Argondia remains unchanged.
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