Parallel Worlds IV Painting

I come from Poland. I live and create in my beloved city of Gdańsk. For many years I have been searching for my own forms of expression in drawing, art design and fabric. For 9 years I have been running my own studio of silk painting, focusing on artistic and educational activity. First years of my work I dedicated mostly to drawing. I draw with a pencil, using sometimes a black crayon – creating artworks of 100x70 size, usually on white cardboards. Since the beginning nature has been my inspiration – resulting in creation of grey ambiguous landscapes with illuminated planes, forming unusual spatial illusions. When I work the most important thing is the process of drawing itself, where delicate shades of grey change slowly into planes of empty spaces with light, saturated with depth and contrast. Afterwards I become fascinated with art design, not so much lithography which I did during my studies, but commercial and advertising design. The world of advertising, including in photography, can be fascinating but it doesn't fulfill. It brings me to a state of mind where I need to look for tranquility and silence again – and I find it in meditation, spirituality and the contemplation of Buddhist philosophy. A turning point of my life was a trip to India, this country bathed in intensity of colour and fragrance. It is there that for the first time I discover natural dyes and natural silk fabrics, not knowing then still, that in the course of a few years I would start using them myself. The impressions from this travel pull me back to drawing, but now using in my artwork a full range of colours. My fascination with the East makes me create mandalas, but not entirely closed in the form of a traditional circle. The drawings now have as well sexual symbols, the expression of my long standing studies of tantra. It is time when memories of travel in India come back and they leave their mark in me in the decision to choose natural silk as a mean of conveying my work. I feel that silk renders in the fullest way possible the softness and transitory nature of the moment. This fabric can capture something that is intrinsically elusive, “the touch of moment”. What is appearing on it is for me a record of being “here and now”. Since that time my work has two directions, both intertwined with the fascination with nature. On the one hand I paint on silk plant- and flower-like motives, on the other hand I am excited about “painting” with using just plants.