Matúš Hečko, under the working name of www.sochavdreve.sk has roots in western Slovakia. He was born in Trnava because the closest hospital nearby was being painted at that time. He studied at university in Nitra. He blundered around as a sales representative for ten years. He spent a year in a mental hospital – the house of mischief until he finally started his artistic activities in which he feels absolute freedom. He was happy to meet excellent teachers such as Čutek and Sedláček who enabled him to dedicate himself to his favourite genre – wood-carving. He has been doing that all the way up to now. He has become addicted to life with the scent of wood. He has been in a solo exhibition, a collective exhibition and had his statue in the park of Horné Orešany(there haven’t been many – just pure modesty). He has been dealing his art works to his supporters for the past ten years to increase the level of serotonin and dopamine in his blood. His work mostly consists of creating sculptures of “chicks” from wood, which brighten his atelier and the living rooms of those who buy them. He lives in Horné Orešany with his wife and his twins, who are proof that when he does something that he enjoys he gives 200% to it.