Elizbieta Krawecka _ Lot 0

Independent

Title: Sweet like honey

A capture of a memory of a time and day, not specific to a location, but rather a reflection of a collective memory. Painted in the style of the Old Masters’ with a traditional glazing technique.

Dimensions: 16" x 16"

Medium: Oil on wood

Value: $1,450

Date: 2019

Elzbieta was born in Krakow and raised in Poland and the Middle East. She is now based in Toronto. Her exposure to different cultures gave 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. Elzbieta uses thick and opaque paint, often applied with a palette knife, alongside translucent glazes of thinner washes. While experimenting with the technique and continuing to pursue travel, which inspires her work, 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 which pertains to entering a work 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.