Adele Reut

After graduating, I worked for many years in the classical style, creating paintings for the Catholic Church. My paintings can be found in churches in the USA, in almost all European countries and also in the Vatican. Lately I have been focusing more on my own themes and techniques, and in my work I am exploring tradition and modernism, feminism and multiculturalism, and how they can be interwoven, and if they can.

Techtique
I am inspired by early medieval painting with its simplicity and seeming unreality. I work using old techniques of Flemish painting, a system involving many transparent and translucent layers of paint, allowing for a sense of saturation, depth and a glow of light from within the picture. This creates an aura of mystery.
At the same time, I try to include a contemporary element in my art, to reveal something new, to create portraits that are not merely images from long ago, but speak to us in the here and now. Lately I have been increasingly attracted to rich, colorful and positive pop art. Which is however very critical as a concept.

Accessibility
I believe that art should be accessible to everyone. That's why I take part in events and exhibitions promoting art in the UK, where I lived after university, and...

::Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Faculty of Graphic Arts
::Warsaw School of Photography and Graphic Design
::British Higher School of Art and Design, Communication and digital design

2024:: Catholic Art Institute Awards, Sacred Art Prize 2024, Finalist. Chicago, United States
2024:: Deutsch-Polnischen Kulturfest Theater Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2024:: Von der Renaissance zur Pop Art und zurück Exhibition Kulturspaziergang, Bremen, Germany
2023:: 111 Sacred Works of Art, Bishop McKnight's special project Diocese of Jefferson City, United States
2022:: Individual Exhibition Focke Museum, Bremen, Germany
2021:: Opening of Seven Sorrows Walk prayer garden at Heritage Preserve Crawfordville, GA, United States
2018:: DENNITSA Festival Galerie ARS PRO DONO, Berlin, Germany
2017:: Exhibition Gutman-Art, Naive Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2014:: Exhibition Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
2014:: Exhibition Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, United States
2014:: STRARTA, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2013:: Тutto Un-Museo Su Una-Parete, Centro d’arte Vista, Rome, Italy
2013:: Exhibition, Chelsea Town Hall, New Chelsea Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
2012:: Individual Exhibition, King’s Art Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2011:: Battersea”, Affordable Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
2011:: Individual Exhibition, i2 Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, United Kingdom