 At the same time in 1982 he started working as a stoker (what he did until 1990) and began to engage in the underground movement.A milestone in his artistic career was his participation in an exhibition in The Youth Gallery in 1985.There started author’s closer co-operation with Petr Veselý and Vladimir Kokolia, which subsequently led to creation of an art group called Tovaryšstvo malířske (Society of Painting).