On paper

"Bees" are the most poetic of my painting series.There is an impression memory and dream. Formally, it is a festival of colors, a festival of painting means, luminous hot colors, various textures from light to heavy, dripping with paint.
I recall the figure of my father, by the passion - beekeeper.
I know this smell, it's the May hot sun, the explosion of flowering, buzzing pollination, multiflorous stimulation, sweet and sticky. I also know allergies, swollen fingers, itchy ankle and foot like a balloon, stings like injections or vice versa. And this picture of spring blooming, young greenery, great strength and will to live.

Bees

Landscapes fantastic

Abstract

Floral world

Animal world

"In her latest works, Grażyna Smalej abandons her former photorealism-esque method of presenting human contact with water (evident in paintings like “Bathing”, numbered from 1 to 70). There is a clear departure here from studies of water in its various manifestations (drops, surfaces, the depths, trickling, splashing, concentric circles or a splashed plume) and also from any attempt to capture a fraction of a second on canvas." KB

GrażYna Smalej