The abstract nature of my paintings is based in my desire to simplify what is perceivable, to leave only what is essential, believing that there is an archetypal ground where we all meet in our human experience. I see color, as a breath of life, pulsating between light and darkness, embracing both the familiar and the unknown.
I find myself exploring landscape as an idea. I may choose to play off the perceptions of the visible fragments of nature, reflecting on the inner landscape of the invisible, that is human nature, emotions, relationships, identity, believes.
Underlying my work is an expression of radical freedom. Growing up on the farmlands of communist Poland infused me with a yearning for freedom — individual, political and spiritual. I immigrated as a political refugee in 1981. My new life in America was a manifestation of that yearning, and imbued me with an empathy for the human desire for freedom in thinking, emotion and experience. Painting process is the closest I have ever experienced freedom within myself.
