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Elzbieta Krawecka |
Born in 1971 and raised in Krakow, Poland, Elzbieta Krawecka absorbed European traditions and old world aesthetics. Subsequently living in Kuwait she was exposed to different cultures giving 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.
Her painting style is a personal exploration of the transient nature of light and its potential to describe space in terms of movement. Elzbieta uses thick and opaque paint, often applied with a palette knife, alongside translucent glazes of thinner washes. While experimenting with the technique, she strives 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 of 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.
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