ABOUT
... while experimenting with the glazing technique and continuing to pursue travel,
Elzbieta strives to continue pushing the boundaries of landscape painting.
Elzbieta strives to continue pushing the boundaries of landscape painting.
Elzbieta Krawecka
Her exposure to different cultures gave her an appreciation for travel, and by moving to Canada to attend the Ontario College of Art and Design, she developed a love for the Canadian landscape. This background is strongly reflected in her work as an oil painter.
Elzbieta uses thick and opaque paint, often applied with a palette knife, alongside translucent glazes of thinner washes. While experimenting with the technique and continuing to pursue travel, which inspires her work, she strive to continue pushing the boundaries of landscape painting and developing her own contemporaneity.
Perhaps as a natural response to the vastness of the North American continent, coupled with the vacuity of the Kuwaiti desert, her paintings depict large areas of open spaces such as skies or water, defined by pattern formations.
Within these paintings, movement and space pose a question which pertains to entering a work where place and time are undefined. What is required is something personal; a thought, a color, an ephemeral quality of sunlight... a timeless sky as a universal space of collective memory.
Within these paintings, movement and space pose a question which pertains to entering a work where place and time are undefined. What is required is something personal; a thought, a color, an ephemeral quality of sunlight... a timeless sky as a universal space of collective memory.
IN THE STUDIO
Elzbieta uses thick and opaque paint, often applied with a palette knife, alongside translucent glazes of thinner washes. While experimenting with the technique and continuing to pursue travel, which inspires her work, she strive to continue pushing the boundaries of landscape painting and developing her own contemporaneity.
INSPIRATION
Travelling to unfamiliar, remote and solitary places has been an ongoing inspiration for my work.
