Renata Szpunar

For me, painting is a process in which there is an alchemical transformation of reality experienced directly into reality created on canvas, which is not its faithful reproduction, but a discovered reality, new and previously unknown. The painter himself is sometimes surprised by the painted image. This process is not subject to rational speculation, but is subject to instinct and intuition. Over the decades, my painting has evolved, and a particularly important stage was studying and sketching from nature, the experience of direct plein air paintings, especially in Greece. Currently, I have broken away from attachment to the visible world in favor of autonomous images, which lead me deep into myself through the process of searching for balance and harmony in them through the combination of color spots and drawing lines. However, I believe that certain elements still remain constant, those that result from my temperament and type of sensitivity, and in the paintings they are revealed by the impressionability and expressiveness of form. The works presented here are a fragment of my artistic achievements to date. I secretly hope that the world I create invites, rather than pushes away, those who look at it, and that it brings about p...

Born 03.03.1970 in Łańcut, in Poland.
During the period 1990-95 studied at the Painting Deparment of the Fine Arts Academy in Cracow, at the studios of prof. Jan Szancenbach and prof. Jerzy Nowosielski.
Graduated in 1995 with diploma under the guidance of prof. Jan Szancenbach.

Individual exhibitions:

1989 Painting, Romantic Castle, Łańcut, Poland
1995 Diploma’95, Grotta Nobile Gallery, Cracow, Poland
1995 Interior, Atelier Gallery, Old Market Sq., Warsaw, Poland
since 1996 permanent exhibition of painting in authors ‘Inny Świat’ Gallery, Łańcut, Poland
1997 Under the sky of South, (with A. Kozień and I. Pajonk) Labirynt Gallery Cracow; „Inny Świat Gallery” Łańcut, Galeria Przy Kominku Chorzów, Poland
1998 Pictures and Sketches, Po schodach Gallery, City Museum, Siemianowice Śl., Poland
1999 Light and darkness, Palace of Arts, Cracow, Poland
XII 1999/VII 2000 Painting „l’Ecurie” Carcassone, France
2000 Return of Prodigal Son, the exhibitin was acompaning Music Festival in Łańcut, Main Church in Łańcut , Poland
2000 Painting, Cafe des Artes, Castre, France
2000 Return of Prodigal Son, together with A. Kozień „The Hell and Heven is inside us” Gallery Krypta u Pijarów, Cracow 2003 Uknown, Pryzmat Gallery, Cracow
2005 - Paintings, Gallery MDK , Lancut
2009 - Sketches from the several travels , Gallery Rękawka , Cracow
2013 - Silence , Gallery Rękawka , Cracow

Participation in numerous group exhibitions, including :

1991 - Paintings, Annense Gallery, Agrigento , Italy
1993 - Exhibition ...