This work is really banal. However I like its conceptual meaning. This work is also a portrait, because is have been made while I was making my final outcome (my mother portrait). Paper towels where used to dry my brush. It is like a reflection of the actual work. For me it meand they are equivalent.

I am still not sure if I prefer presenting this portraits as four, or like a single artwork. I am looking forward for my assessment feedback.

I found my inspiration in John Byrne portrait painings sience I first saw them in Edinburgh Portrait Gellery. I always focused on the way he place his compositions and how he play with perspective. Last year I was lucky enoughhad to meet the artist at his house.

When I was a child We had a massive portrait of my mother, painted by my father. I used to think it's ugly. Now the painting is is placed in Art Gallery.

Part of a move about the artist Władysław Strzemiński. Artist was a lecture in School of Art in Lodz, city I really like and visit often.  He was living and working dooring the time Poland was under control of communism (post war). It is a beautiful move about freedom in art and life.  

Władysław Strzemiński 

Kyungah Ham

The human body in its physical presence, but also in its vulnerability, finite nature and absence, is often at the centre of her work, turning her paintings into an art of counter-perception, oriented towards the timeless, without repudiating the contemporary, striving for allegory, while constructing a polyfocal labyrinth of uncertainties. The dissection of space and the concurrent dynamization of the image are conspicuous, connected as they are to the breaking up of form and the transformation of the figure. In her work, moments of escalation are juxtaposed with a relativisation of time through a suspension of dynamic processes.”

At the beginning of the project I was thinking about presenting a human figure in the artworks. This idea has changed during the development. In my opinion by including this aspect in the artwork I would make it have a different meaning, viewer would concentrate on action not about the place itself.

My favorite movie/poem. Definitely an inspiration for current project.

The wood was collected from the journey I had. I fond painting the place it was connected from on it really intrigue. It’s like the object is reflecting my own thoughts associated with it. It’s interesting.

Small Zine Development piece.

Before and after. I actually prefer the ‘unfinished’ one…

Peter Doig painting 

Monika Ślósarczyk is a polish artist living and working in Wisla. I always liked her works. Monika Ślósarczyk paint her artworks in a really specific way. These are oil paintings which looks like fabric coloured with ink, or watercolour painting. The artist does not use specific perspective in the picture. Also, the role of the contour and the specific way of composing the human figure, which plays an ornamental role. It brings to my mind a Japanese art. However, by looking at her work I can see it's her own, different aesthetic. Very delicate, sophisticated and decorative. The artist's works transferred a viewer into a completely different world, very close to nature and its regular, soothing rhythm. Usually, she represents everyday situation and people in her works. I think it’s really relevant to my project.