There is nothing more refreshing than a cold crispy winter morning... Especially when the sun rises above the roofs of a sleepy town. The light elevates every element of landscape, sculpting the hard, straight building edges into more organic structures. As a lover of nature's design I love to play with man-made forms and reshape them back into rocks they orginally came from.

Kasia Wozniak

Crispy Cold Morning

Amazing, how every bit of Dutch landscape nowadays tells us a story of humans shaping their surroundings! Wherever I go, the scenes I see and admire always bear traces of a human touch. This cold January sunrise  depicts the degree of change in weather patterns, revealing the sorry shape our winters currently take. No matter, the winter palette is amazing to work with and makes my heart sing!

Human touch

Farmland covers more than half of The Netherlands, there is no escape from its distinctive elements. The area where I live is dotted with farm buildings and areable fields. This farm along my everyday dog-walking route changes with seasons. This early January scene has gripped my heart because of the light show the winter has rolled out before my eyes. Still, every line in this painting leeds to the farm building, revealing to us how each element of the landscape tells the story of shaping the nature to the our own needs.

Winter's retreat from farmland

Fascinated by the strong sunlight contre-jour I decided to keep the color palette limited adn focus on the light effect.

Through the Fence

Based on photograph by a Russian photographer

Snow Arrived in the Forest

In the series of snowscapes from my child memories: backlit snowy forrest. Oil painting on stretched cotton canvas

Powdered Forest

Although the reference for this image was shot in Russia (by Alexandr Parkhomenko) it might just as well be the area of eastern Poland where I grew up, with the same majestic river on the border with former Soviet Union. The cotton candy colors of the low hanging sun!

Winter form my Childhood Memory

Full-on Winter

Inspired by Daniel J. Keys' Eventide series

Sun-set-flowers

Still Life with Tangerine

Is it a selfportrait ;) or a (not so) still life?

Holding to My Morning Coffee

Still Life with Persimmon

Still Life with Autumn Harvest

Inspired by a still life by Sarah Sedwick

Glow

I just love the glow of Christmas ornaments!

Festive Cheer

I find decaying subject matter fascinating...

The Beauty of Decay

Inspired by Eventide series by Daniel J. Keys

Foxgloves in the Last Light

Based on photo by and curtesy of ©Ian Roberts, with my greatest gratitude!

Peonies in Evening Light

Inspired by Geogia O'Keefe's flower closeups

Lust

Winter on the far border of Eastern Poland, inspired by Fedor Sakharev

Winter River

Pastoral Stroll

Inspired by a photograph by unknown Russian photographer, oil on Canson paper

Sleepy Village

Inspired by wintery heath on our doorstep in Heijen, The Netherlands

Morning Hoarfrost

Landscape in Heijen, along the Maas river dyke

Long Shadows

white

yellow

orange

purple

dark blue

green

light blue

brown

black

Acrylic

Aquatint

Canvas

Chalk

Charcoal

Clay

Concrete

Embroidery

Graphite

Gold

Mixed Media

Metal

Oil Paint

Paper

Pastels

Pencil

Pigment

Resin

Tempera

Textile

Watercolor

Collage

Other

Film

Digital

Ceramic

Wire

Wood

Yarn

Stone

Porcelain

Marble

Glass

Plastic

Design

Drawing

Engraving

Etching

Linocut

Lithography

Painting

Prints

Screen Print

Text

Work on paper

Photography

3D Print

Performance

Sculpture

Landscape

Portrait

Very large

Large

Medium

Small

Very Small

This exhibition paints my journey, from exuberant abstract expressions of my love for light to the nuanced, more representational observations of everyday beauty around me. In words of Mary Oliver: "Real attention needs empathy; attention without feeling is just a report.” Hence, each painting is an attempt to depict the emotion behind my fascination with the scene and to share it with you, the viewer.

Beauty Within

3 wall booth with grey carpet