Oil painting on cotton canvas. Dimensions 50x60.
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Painter born in Rybnik, in 1988, where she also currently lives and works. She has been drawing and painting since she was very young, studied graphic design for three years, worked as a computer graphic designer for a short period of time, but did not fully fulfill herself in this.
For four years she worked at the Gallery of European Painting in Rybnik, where she created surrealist paintings and taught an oil painting course. Among other things, while working at the gallery, she also painted an 8 x 2.5-meter Panorama of Rybnik, which is currently on display at the music school in Rybnik's concert hall.
At the end of 2019, she left the Gallery and opened her own Art Studio.
In painting, she primarily uses oil technique, and the main theme of her works is surrealism. For more than a year, the artist has also been using the impasto technique.
The author about her surrealist paintings:
"Ideas for paintings, come at different times of the day, sometimes I am inspired by a face seen on a bus, sometimes by a situation, many ideas also come at night when I can't sleep or when I am dreaming, while painting they are usually still processed.
In paintings I often try to show beauty where, according to learned norms, there is no beauty. When creating I enter a trance, it is a form of meditation for me, a complete disconnection from the outside world.
Painting helps me to consciously or often less consciously express myself, sometimes when painting a picture I focus solely on its visual side thinking that this time it is a picture completely without content, after finishing or already in the process of painting it turns out that this is not quite the case... as if something inside wanted to communicate with me.
I don't like to talk about my paintings and the most beautiful thing for me as an artist is for the viewers to read their content in different ways."
