Beata BrząKalik-Gburek

I am a painter and photographer born in Poland.I studied fine art at the University of Silesia in Cieszyn and Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, both graduated with honors. I use the classic oil on canvas technique because it gives me a lot of freedom to create and apply many layers and thoughts.
I took part in many exhibitions: group, competition and individual. My works are in private collections in my country and abroad, including Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Scotland and Sicily.

I am inspired by nature, which is the best painter. With its meadows, gardens, vast fields, seas, oceans and lakes I’m bound to find some beauty in both my natural environment and on my travels. My paintings are a story about a human being who is not literally present in the painting, but rather through his landscapes of the soul, exhibiting all emotions from joy, hope and delight, to sadness and fear. I am also inspired by art, especially impressionism with all the patches of light and shadow, expressionism with its deep emotions and wild colors, and abstract expressionism with its infinite possibility and joy of creation.

„I don’t paint what I see,
but what I saw”. (Edward Munch)

Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw / graduated with honours
University of Silesia - Art Institute, Cieszyn / graduated with honours

Master of Art
Member in Association of Polish Art Photographers

Collective "After Midnight", Engram Gallery, Katowice City of Gardens 2023
Collective "Present", Gallery ZPAF Katowice 2022
Post-competition, 9th International Salon "Still Life in Photography", Municipal Art Gallery,
Czestochowa 2021
Post-competition, 4th International Biennale of Photography "Definition of Space", BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Kielce 2020
Solo "Equivalents", Behind the Window Gallery, City House of Culture, Katowice 2019
Post-competition, 7th International Salon "Still Life in Photography", Municipal Art Gallery, Czestochowa 2018
Collective, charity photography exhibition "Kingdom" Katowice 2017
Solo "Visual Presence", Katowice ZPAF Gallery, Katowice 2017
Post-competition, VII International Salon "Still life in photography", Municipal Art Gallery, Częstochowa 2016
Collective, "Next. How far?”, Gallery Next to ZPAF, Warsaw 2016
Collective, "Fingerprints", ZPAF Gallery Katowice 2015
Solo "Faces found-between light and shadow", Artistic Station, Gliwice 2015
Double multimedia exhibition "Dialogue", Planet Cinema, ZPAF Katowice 2015
Post-competition, National Art Competition named after Vincent van Gogh, Rybnik 2014
Collective, "Further" dedicated to the memory of Jerzy Lewczyński, ZPAF Gallery Katowice 2014
Post-co...