Bożena Jędrzejewicz – Fine Art Painter

"Five Colours" series – “Green” („Zielony” z serii „Pięć Kolorów”)
oil on canvas, 200 × 250 cm, 1991

Mathematics is the most precise way to describe the world, but there is another—Art.
While mathematics defines reality through formulas and numbers, art seeks harmony in ideas, emotions, and feelings—elements that, by their nature, defy measurement.

Bożena Jędrzejewicz

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RECENT WORKS

selected oil paintings

"Triptych With Muse" („Tryptyk z muzą”)
oil on three canvases, 100 × 250, 2014

"Triptych With Muse" („Tryptyk z muzą”)
oil on canvas, 100 × 100, 2014

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2016 - 2017: sea series

selected oil paintings

"Southampton"
oil on canvas, 73 × 100, 2017

"Southampton"
oil on canvas, 70 × 50, 2017

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2000 - 2010: from my atelier

selected oil paintings

“With a Model” („Z modelem”)
oil on canvas, 120 × 92 cm, 2003

MY ATELIER

An artist’s atelier is a foundry of ideas—a space where elements of reality transform into artistic expression. It is also a sanctuary for the artist, whose creative process demands endless hours of solitary labour with paint, canvas, and other media.
The atelier's window bridges the outside world, allowing the ever-changing daylight to filter through. Eventually, that light, dancing within the confines of the window frame, becomes a subject of study for the artist—captivated by the subtle shifts in colours and textures. The window takes on landscapes' role for the Impressionists: the eternal presence of Nature, waiting to be observed, portrayed, and understood.

Bożena Jędrzejewicz

“My Palette” („Moja paleta”)
oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm, 2004

“Open Window” („Otwarte okno”)
oil on canvas, 50 × 65 cm, 2005

“Reality” („Realność”)
oil on canvas, 50 × 65 cm, 2005

“August Light” („Sierpniowe światło”)
oil on canvas, 100 × 73 cm, 2005

“With a Model” („Z modelką”)
oil on canvas, 140 × 100 cm, 2004

“With a Ghost” („Z duchem”)
oil on canvas, 100 × 140 cm, 2007

“After and Before” („Potem i przedtem”)
oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm, 2009

“Painter's Dream” („Sen malarza”)
oil on canvas, 100 × 140 cm, 2008

My work is focused on humans as individual beings in the modern world. I try to discover their emotions and to define person’s physical and spiritual space, as well as forces, that he or she is under and interacts with. My visual language juxtaposes abstract with realism, reaches to archetypal imagery and symbolism of colors in order to create universal, contemporary meaning.

Bożena Jędrzejewicz

“Divorce” („Poliptyk rozwodowy”)
oil and egg tempera on four canvases, 426 × 130 cm, 2008

From “Divorce” („Poliptyk rozwodowy”)
oil on canvas, 130 × 130 cm, 2008

“Divorce” („Poliptyk rozwodowy”)
oil on canvas, 70 × 130 cm, 2008

“Hecate and Persefona” („Hekate i Persefona”)
oil on canvas, 100 × 240 cm, 2004

“Raphael and Tobias” („Rafał i Tobiasz”)
oil on canvas, 200 × 140 cm, 2009

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1989 - 1992: Five Colors

“Five Colours” is an installation of five paintings (each 250 × 200 cm), created between 1989 and 1991.
Oil on canvas.

"Five Colours" series – “White” („Biały”)
oil on canvas, 250 × 200 cm, 1991

"Five Colours" series – Yellow” („Żółty”)
oil on canvas, 250 × 200 cm, 1989

"Five Colours" series – “Orange” („Pomarańczowy”)
oil on canvas, 250 × 200 cm, 1992

"Five Colours" series – “Red” („Czerwony”)
oil on canvas, 250 × 200 cm, 1992

"Five Colours" series – “Green” („Zielony”)
oil on canvas, 250 × 200 cm, 1991

Working on "White",
mixed media on paper, 250 × 200 cm, 1991

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1996 - 2000: Selected WORKS

“Enlightenment” („Oświecenie”)
oil on two canvases, 147 × 182 cm, 1999

“Self-portrait with Daughter” („Autoportret z córką”)
oil on canvas, 92 × 120 cm, 1999

“Hamlet”, oil on canvas, 200 × 160 cm, 1994

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1986 - 1996: Selected WORKS

"Alternative Selfportraits: Blue" („Niebieski”)
mixed media on paper, 70 × 100 cm, 1987

"Alternative Selfportraits: Green"(„Zielony”)
mixed media on paper, 70 × 100 cm, 1987

"Alternative Selfportraits: Yellow" („Żółty”)
mixed media on paper, 70 × 100 cm, 1987

"Alternative Selfportraits: Red" („Czerwony”)
mixed media on paper, 70 × 100 cm, 1987

"Morning Coffee in Cracow" („Poranna mała czarna w Krakowie”), mixed media on paper, 530 × 300 cm, 1987

"Morning Coffee in Cracow", mixed media on paper, 530 × 300 cm (exhibition view - Zachęta, Warsaw 1989)

"Other Sides" („Drugie Strony”), mixed media on paper, 530 x 300 cm (exhibition view - Kraków BWA, 1885)

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1984: Through The Power Of Big Trees

Standing for art, which expresses what is the most fundamental and carnal in humans, but often hidden deep in subconsciousness, I have steered away from politics and ideology. At some point, however, I gave in to the collective consciousness of the early 1980’s in Poland and painted this monochromatic composition. The inspiration came from walks in the woods, which I used to make regularly with my child, as an escape from the greyness of the city, the limitations, monotony and hopelessness of the Communist Era, an era when the only freedom was in the imagination and dreams. The sight of timeless trees, strong and firmly rooted in the ground, was giving me hope to live to the coming of better times. I felt unified with those majestic trees and understood that we endure here patiently together, becoming stronger, against changing political situations. Personified trees are a merged form, with powerful trunks, which are their backbones. They are the archetypal ‘sacred tree’ - axis mundi - connecting earthly and cosmic powers, the centre point of the new world from which the regeneration begins. And so it was, system transformation began here in Poland, the totalitarian system collapsed and the dreams of freedom we all had around 1984 finally came true.

Bożena Jędrzejewicz-Krzysik, Kraków 1990

"Through the Power of Big Trees"(„Przez moc wielkich drzew”), watercolor on paper, 400 × 280 cm, 1984