I am an abstract painter. My work is process oriented, exploring light, space, land, a sense of place, human touch, and belonging.
I build my paintings from the background, from an atmosphere of color, with layers of the past affecting the present. I refine color and space by drawing fine lines of paint across the surface, pulling them like a thread of thought. The dynamic of lines changes direction, creating movement, like a dance guided by breath, body, memory, chance, and intention. They remind me of making up stories in writing, like child’s play, in a language that can only be understood through feeling.
I often think about the ground I stand on, the soil as a surface that holds history. I am drawn to ideas of archaeology and artifacts, to the invisible layers beneath us that shape the present. My background informs this exploration; growing up in Poland, a land of fairy tales mixed with stories of heroism, survival, endurance, and courage, shaped my way of seeing. I learned cursive in my childhood through calligraphy with pen and ink. As a teenager, I learned tapestry weaving from my mother. These experiences remain present in my process. The vertical warp and horizontal weft of weaving taught me to see structure as both memory and matter, layers building like strata of the earth, storing and transforming ideas and experiences.
