– Just Love –
“Love Minus Zero is what?
Just Love or Love”
CITY QUEEN. Acrylic on canvas.
102 x 76 cm
“I was born in Poland and have lived half my Life here in Toronto. Both countries have influenced and shaped my art for better or worse. But, mostly, it has been introverted meditation and silence that gave birth to the images in my paintings, telling a story of my inner worlds. As Francis Bacon said, “The purpose of art is to expose mystery.”
The world, however, has also captured my attention, especially the uncompassionate politics and devastation of our environment. I think people must recognize the difference between living beings and inanimate objects, such as live animals and nature and robotic technology. We have started to mistreat what is alive and worship the inanimate, to create lifelike bots, and to treat them with reverence.
So I often paint women with animals, like ravens or flies, to show our affinity with them. An artist’s role, I feel, is one akin to a Shaman’s part to try to heal our earth and ourselves”.
CRIMSON POEM. Acrylic on canvas.
91 x 91 cm
I have been living now in Canada for many years. I graduated from OCAD (Ontario College of Art) after doing a Psychology and English major at the University of Toronto. But really, I have always painted. It is my first and last Love.
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DRAGONFLY LADY. Acrylic on canvas.
102 x 76 cm
In the last few years, I received a Medal from France in a Painting Festival in Avignon. (Grand Prix). Not my first there.
Also, I exhibited my art at the Grand Palais in Paris; this is after my work was stolen from an international exhibition, Figuration Critique.
I guess the French feel an affinity with my theme and style.
Most recently, I have shown there again in November of 2015. Photography is my second passion.
Gevik Gallery in Toronto represents my art.
REVOLUTION. Acrylic on canvas.
102 x 76 cm
Like Bob Dylan, I like to explore how our mundane moment-to-moment Life relates to the higher meaning of Life, birth, and death.
“My Love she speaks like silence, Without ideals or violence,”
Bob Dylan wrote.
“Love Minus Zero is what? – Just Love or Love. No Limit is about the passage of time being both an instant and an eternity. Farewell Moonshiner is an intoxicated, ecstatic guy drunk on Life and Love or what? We have eyes to see and windows to look through, but can we use them? Or, do we blindly stumble along, feeling lonely. Not-Two and Not-One.
Then what? A mystery… For you to decide.”
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QUEEN. Acrylic on canvas.
122 x 61 cm
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