She studied textile design and created rugs, tapestries, clothing, and decorative textiles for industrial production. Alongside her work, she devoted herself to painting. After becoming one of the first signatories of Charter 77, she was banned from galleries and cultural institutions. Considered an outcast by the communist system, she withdrew to the countryside.

Olga Karlikova drew birdsong and developed a graphic "alphabet" for more than forty species. Awakened before dawn by the first birdsong, she began transcribing the songs blindly in the dark, sometimes continuing her work until nightfall on long rolls of paper. Her hand moved from bottom to top across the sheet, translating the progression of the birdsong in time and space.

Akin to automatic writing, Olga Karlikova never considered her drawings as art but rather as a private, pseudo-scientific project that she kept confidential.

These ornithological melodies form visual symphonies and invite us on a lyrical and poetic journey, a unique new invention in the history of art.