Magdalena Dmowska      

I paint what I see and what I feel. I paint what I feel about what I see.

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At first, painting became story-telling; illustrations of my private mythologies. Those figurative works are emotional self-portraits and results of me using my art making as a coping mechanism with sadness and grief.

 

I do not want to unpack the meanings and symbols hidden in my paintings.
The uniqueness of art permits us to develop our own individuality in relation to others and generates a symbolic compensation for things otherwise lost in the passage of time. Longing embedded in grief always refers to some individual memories and visualisation of those feelings always reference autobiographical memory, remembrance of places, moments, and most important, people that informed our being.

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My abstract paintings address the materiality of colour as a non – linguistic aspect of art, where the image is not a sign, but barely a reminder of the gesture enclosed in the medium itself.In my view colour has the material substance of meaning; colour is not a tool, but rather a necessity for comprehending life as such. Colour represents so many things, but primarily, for me, colour is an instrument of constant transformation, a crucial tool for negotiating the whole work–by overlapping, constructing and deconstructing the palette.