Elzbieta Krawecka

Elzbieta Krawecka is a landscape painter whose work explores the subtle transience of light, her ubiquitous skies referring to a universal space of collective memory.

Born in Krakow, Poland, and having lived at a young age in Kuwait with her family, she then moved to Canada,

Elzbieta's paintings depict large open spaces, such as skies and surfaces, defined by pattern formations always on the brink of change. Her skyscapes strive to capture that elusive movement, in an atmospheric blurring of boundaries between land, water, and sky representational moving towards abstract. In this subtle fluidity where nothing is constant, mass suddenly dematerializes while sky takes on substance, space becoming tangible. This effect occurs through the use of thick and opaque paint often applied with a palette knife, and translucent glazes of thinner washes.

Elzbieta received her formal art training at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada. After graduating from the Communication and Design department, she then went on to work in advertising and packaging design for a number of years before
returning to her love of painting.
Over the last eighteen years Elzbieta has mastered several old European painting techniques, while continuing to pursue international travel which deeply inspires her work. Schooled in the tradition of 17th century Dutch landscape painting, her take on landscape is further touched by a uniquely personal treatment of light and space; for just as movement has figured a major role in her life, so it becomes the focus in her work.

Elzbieta has exhibited with a number of galleries across Canada; including solo shows with Bugera Matheson Gallery in Edmonton, James Baird Gallery in Newfoundland, Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver, Canadian Fine Art Gallery in Toronto, Galerie d'Avignon in Montreal, Canada House Gallery in Banff.