Phosphènes Painting

Born in 1961 in Krakòw, Poland. Live and work in Switzerland since 1983. Member of VISARTE Vaud. Exhibit in many galleries in Switzerland and in France. www.joanna-ingarden-mouly.ch https://www.instagram.com/joannaingarden?igsh=YzVkODRmOTdmMw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr Painting the invisible Joanna Ingarden hardly expresses herself with words, because words intimidate her. Timid and discreet, except for the vivacity of her gaze she poses on the world, which she traverses without disturbing. But, make no mistake about it. Behind these appearances reveals a powerful artist who asserts herself with conviction through various shapes, the impulses of her paint brush, the medium and the colours. And there, on the canvas, she has a lot to tell. Each of her paintings, with lines that are both exuberant and light, ineffable lines but also of raw material, recreates the world, as if the artist had to appropriate her environment before showing it, in its unique and profound way. Joanna Ingarden's paintings are uninhibited. She opens the fields of infinity and evokes reality with humility, leaving the necessary space for the singular gaze of the viewer to recreate it. Where one person will see characters, the other will see birds, spirits that cross the canvas without touching it. Her works of art are alive, they resinate and transform, so much so that one can admire it for days and every day discover a detail, a silhouette, a landscape, a celestial writing or a new emotion. It is the magic of the abstract, in which this Swiss painter of Polish and Scandinavian origin creates her painting. Nature plays an essential role in the work of Joanna Ingarden. In nature there is evanescence and raw material. The Nordic landscapes in transparency, the seas, the seabed and the land clinging to the sky are so real and unreal at the same time, that the painting caputures us, in which we enter. Without even realizing it, the viewer begins a journey, a flight, from landscape to landscape, like a nomad or a migratory bird that sees the world from the sky, so that the painting no longer have a top, nor bottom, neither a right nor left side. Only what matters is the angle from which one looks at the painting seen at that moment. Joanna Ingarden uses a technique of solid colours, pigments mixed with acrylic binder, oil crayons and graphite on which she superimposes lines and scratches, specific to her style.