Katarzyna Gajewska

About me:

http://www.360vr.ie/virtual-tours/Katarzyna_Gajewska/Katarzyna.html www.katarinagajewska.com katarinartist@gmail.com

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My painting process is something between my dreams and documentation. My art is situated in the middle, not in the realistic and not in the abstract, in popular meaning. I am looking for human simplicity and complexity in the same way.

I am trying to catch the casual feelings, naked and defenceless in their realism, and than with understanding and patience I start to build portraits.

My portraits are like multilayered cocoons, profoundly intimate, sexual or innocent. Psychological topography; still glances, crucial in their expression are uncovered in layers of my paint. Bold, rich and dramatic faces are like language; pulsing and inspiring. My portraits are my form of communication. For me no subject is sacred. The role of provocative feelings, persuasion, as well as the human impulse to beautify compels my works of art. I dont use any tools besides my hands, to be closer. I could say that my art is a first hand emotion and thats why I am painting only with my hands. It allows me to make close ups much deeper than they really are. I love using extreme zooming in - in life and in my paintings. My inspirations are deeply rooted in myself. I'm trying to search for inspiration every day: To reach for the deep feelings hidden below the surface of appearances, to pull them out from behind the window pane. It is a permanent record of fleeting sensations. This release from naturalism is a real struggle between the forces of creation and destruction.

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