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The Farewell Tree near Stanisławice has been present in my imagination since childhood. It is connected with an old tradition from a village near Kozienice in Mazovia. In this place, an ancient pine once stood with a small shrine embedded in its structure. Funeral processions would stop there on the way to the parish cemetery, …
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People often ask why I still paint outdoors when modern cameras can record far more detail than I could ever capture on a small panel in a few hours. The answer is simple: a photograph and direct observation are not the same thing. Even the best camera does not see the way the human eye …
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My practice as an oil painter is rooted in observation, but not in a purely descriptive sense. I am interested in how a subject is transformed once it passes through perception — how light, memory, and atmosphere begin to reshape what we see. I am an Italian-Polish oil painter working primarily with contemporary figurative and …
Read more “How I Approach Oil Painting – Light, Atmosphere and Perception in My Work”
