Marta Ptaszkiewicz

My work is greatly inspired by nature – its forms and processes, which I regard as metaphors for human life. I’m interested in movement and change, as some of the essentials of the natural world, as well as in its sensual qualities – textures, light and space.

Strongly linked with dance and music, my works are are being created mainly through intuitive improvisations: I follow physical and emotional impulses evoked by music and the painting process itself. My own experience of playing music and dancing let me experience the links between music/sound, movement and painting.

Often during the creative process, I reach the point where all the senses unite into one, the sense of self disappears, allowing me to discover new worlds – surprising yet recognizable: traces of the natural forms that impressed me deeply and imprinted themselves in my mind and body; emotional and sensual impressions.