COPPER’S TRANSFORMATION TO GREEN Print

J: Why Am I an Artist? I breathe through my paintings, when I don’t paint I am not alive. Being in the present moment is the secret power of my work. I lose myself in the moment I paint and everything around me disappears. I don’t plan. Everything is spontaneous. I put the white canvas in front of me, look at the colors of paint, and listen to them. I pick the ones that I hear the loudest. Once I have the canvas, the paints, and the brushes ready the journey into the unknown begins and I am gone. A couple of hours later I am back with a new creation of my breath. This is why I am an artist- to breathe, to be alive, and to share my energy with others Born and raised in Poland Jadwiga Hajdo has started her art journey more than 40 years ago. Being a teacher and working with children in an orphanage sparked her interest in painting, what over time developed into a deep passion. She is a self-learner, not limited by any existing frameworks. She always follows her intuition and surrenders to her own feeling of observed nature, what she later conveys in her art. The last years of Jadwiga’s creation were focused on abstract expressionism, as this way she expresses her fascination in nature best. Her works are a result of feeling, sensing, and noticing what is happening around her. Flower petals, dew, small birds singing in the morning, sunrise and sunset, leaves and grass, forests, fields, sea, mountains, EARTH. The magic of nature and perfection of its shapes, colors, and curves continuously astonishes her and motivates her to express this beauty on canvas. Jadwiga Hajdo loves creating things that are new, unpredictable, and difficult to reproduce. Her first art “teachers” were the classic impressionists Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Cezanne, and others. Through their work, she learned how to use oil paints and capture the beautiful movement of nature on canvas. However, the year 2008 was groundbreaking in her art career, where she completely changed the technique to acrylics and started to create abstract pieces. Because of family reasons she had to move for one year to a small village in Poland, where she was surrounded by golden cornfields, wild, green forests, and a colorful garden with countless flowers. Every single day she took a walk in nature and observed it in every form. Sunrise/Sunset, Day/ Night, Summer/Winter, Sun/Rain, Clear Sky/Fog, Dew/Hoarfrost.