Despite the sunnier-than-usual autumn we've enjoyed this year, we all know what's coming: The gray season lies ahead, and Anna Neborová's exhibition at Galerie kai de kai is fitting for the change of weather.

This most recent series of paintings by the 37-year-old artist includes eight works made across the four seasons, which nonetheless are all composed in gray, light black and dirty white. The lack of color gives the work a nostalgic tone or timelessness. All of the paintings are untitled, forcing the viewer to create names for them, like the following:

Winter scene at night with lamp posts portrays a group of faceless people talking in a park at night on a lighted walkway. It is a somber, snowy landscape and the gray tones seem most natural for this season.

Although A man and two dogs is almost submerged in gray, the scene could be summer. Three girls and an outsider sitting alone without a book is definitely a summer piece, showing a group of teenage girls sitting on a sloped lawn with an isolated girl sitting just beyond them, staring straight ahead.

For those who know Vinohrady's Riegrovy sady, the artist's landscape will be recognizable. Neborová lives only a few blocks from the park and spends much time there, days and nights, walking her dog, Oskar, who is the hero in the children's book titled Mimi and Oskar, which she wrote and illustrated.

In this show there is a portrait of a dog that resembles Oskar, along with a couple of smaller paintings of pigeons in the park. Oskar also figures, not as prominently but still importantly, in the most vulnerable work in the exhibit, Self-portrait: Artist and her dog. Hanging in the gallery's cellar, this painting shows the artist sitting alone in a beer garden with her dog beside her. Someone has left an unfinished beer in front of her, though she has finished her glass of water. The season is spring or fall — the clue is the hooded sweater (and beer) in the outdoor setting.

Neborová's previous paintings, like her book, have always incorporated deep colors. This series, while more somber, is also her most mature work. Seeing the town as gray in all seasons can be a sign of lost optimism, or of simply having grown up.

The light and dark gray tones are also reminiscent of old black-and-white photos. Neborová's deceased father, Leos Nebor, was a well-respected art photographer in the 1960s who was forced to do only commercial work after 1968, and this could very well be another source of inspiration for her. In 1996 his work from the '60s was given a full retrospective at Mánes. Perhaps for Neborová, this series in gray tones and shadows is a way of connecting to her father's work as well as to a past era.

Neborová has not shown abroad yet, but she says a gallery in London is interested in her new work, possibly for an exhibition next year. This is not surprising. In fact, gallery-goers are bound to appreciate this series in often-gray England, especially those who happen to be humming a beautifully melancholic Nick Drake tune in their head while looking at the paintings.