Night whispers of light -1 Painting

Joanna Sołtan (born in 1969) Painter Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She studied painting at the studio of ŁukaszKorolkiewicz and WłodzimierzPawlak. She graduated from the Faculty of Industrial Design with a diploma with honours under the guidance of Jerzy Porębski. Graduate of the renowned High School of Fine Arts in Supraśl. She ran her own design studio specialising in the interior design of residences and palaces. Member of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP), Association of Polish Watercolourists and European Confederation of Watercolour Societies. The artist operates in several media – oil, watercolour and acrylic. She shows the reality that provides us with the awareness of transcendence. Matter reveals itself as the penetration of parallel conscious and subconscious dimensions. In her works, penetration is a symbol of multidimensionality of people and their world. This one of a kind combination of family history, places of existence, relations, feelings, experiences, builds spiritual energy of the image. This is this energy that communicates with the viewer at the energetic, subconscious and conscious level. She paints with dynamics. She is a part of the trend of colourism and expressionism. The style characteristic for her is achieved through the technique of splashing and pouring of highly saturated pigments. Her works participated in dozens of international exhibitions in Poland and abroad – in Germany, France, Italy and Spain. I paint with Dynamics. In my watercolour technique, the brush is used to throw paint on canvas; often, I also pour it directly from the vessel on the painting. I achieve the effect of pouring and mixing paints by moving a sheet of paper or canvas. Colour saturation in watercolour is obtained by choosing appropriate components and powdered natural pigments, which I mix up by myself according to the recipes used in ancient watercolour painting in the Far East. I paint on large formats of thick cotton cardboard or canvas specially primed for watercolour. My technique I developed my own painting technique, which allows me to transfer the effects obtained in watercolour painting on canvas. I combine glaze effects and dynamics of watercolour painting with the texture of acrylic or oil. Using the multidimensionality of the surface, I obtain the effect of depth and space in the painting.