OPAL Picture Frames and Art Gallery

Artist Profile

Gosia Polonczyk was born in Gdansk, a city in the north of Poland in 1970. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. In 1997 Gosia obtained an MA in Painting and Scenic Design. In the same year, she was awarded a scholarship in painting at the Academy of the Fine Arts in Athens. During the period 1999-2001 she worked as an art teacher. Gosia Polonczy has participated in many exhibitions in Europe.

She writes: "My works make no reference to objects of the physical world and the form "express nothing", because, according to Malevich, "the artist can be a creator only when the forms of his pictures have nothing in common with nature".

It seems to me that sometimes the forms are most suggestive when they are dampened and allusive. I am impressed by the paintings of representatives of abstract art such as Bazin, Bissier, La Moli, Viera de Silva, and their creation of an athmosphere through a perception of nature in the law of melody and harmony in a pure pictorial world. I am fascinated by Kiefer's and Rothko's compositions, full of romantic lyricism and frigid logic. My paintings show my own attitude to colour. They are monochrome and almost "solid". Some of their titles reflect this: "..white...", ...black...". My "inner necessity" to express my emotional perception has led to an abstract style of painting based on the non-representational properties of colour and form."

"My works were created by the force of the inner conflict, for it was hard to reveal so many emotions within the strict rules of painting that I had accepted. Painting is self-expression, an exploration of individuality and a palette of memories and imagination."