Eden - 2006 I work in series because I believe it is all right to change. Every phase of my artistic
journey has its own statement. Paintings of children came after paintings of nests:
symbolic for home, family,togetherness and cycle. The series are different but
somehow connected and I like to revisit old subjects with new approach. I have
given up “one
recognizable style”. I go where art takes me.
Now art takes me more in direction of science. Biology professors start loving
my art. The double round shapes in my paintings are inspired by maps,
microscopes and binoculars. Peeking through the fabric of things into
realm of invisible is very intimate. Curiosity leads us to discoveries which,
beautiful as they are, produce as many questions as answers. Somehow
this notion and painting kids makes perfect sense to me on emotional
level. There is a connection, hard to pin down.
I combine abstract scientific forms with familiar images: things that mind
already knows and takes for granted. Things like trees, sky, children, plants.
I strive to create beauty that is somehow unsettling and I use old masters
techniques and contemporary imagery to achieve it. Paintings should be just
abstract enough for viewers to project their own emotions and experiences
on them. I like them to notice what they never saw before. I like people to
pay attention.
Barbara
Król
Eden - 2006