About The Artist
My artistic soul keeps making itself known and, apparently, is still looking for somewhere to go.
I have always been a sentimental person — someone who notices the small moments, the fragments and details that are very easy to overlook while we are living them.
A Sunday lunch.
A quiet coffee on your own.
A familiar gesture.
A corner of a room.
A certain kind of light.
The tiny things that remind you of your mum or dad and, years later, unexpectedly bring back that familiar feeling.
An ordinary moment you don't yet realise will one day become a memory.
Perhaps that is why I have always been drawn to minimalism. I love how very little can sometimes hold so much.
My work often shows life in fragments rather than complete scenes — a pair of hands, the fall of fabric, part of a figure, an object left behind.
Because perhaps that is how memories return to us too. Not as a complete picture, but as small pieces that somehow carry the feeling of the whole.
The Art
Visually, I am especially drawn to the meeting of two very different artistic languages: the searching delicacy of graphite drawing and the physical, expressive character of oil impasto.
I love the point where one seems to become the other — where a carefully observed form begins to disappear into unfinished pencil marks, where paint gives way to a searching line, and where parts of the image simply dissolve into the paper.
And I love silence in an artwork.
Empty space is never something I feel compelled to fill. For me, it can carry as much emotion as the image itself. It gives the eye somewhere to rest and leaves something for the viewer to complete.
This meeting of drawing, painterly texture and negative space has gradually become the visual language running through my work.
I work with contemporary digital and AI-assisted creative tools, using them as part of my creative process — to explore, direct, refine and shape an idea until it becomes the piece I had in mind.
The finished artworks are produced as Fine Art prints. They are not original hand-painted or hand-drawn works, and any visible graphite, brushwork or impasto is part of the artwork's visual language rather than physical paint or pencil on the final print.
The Words
And then there are the words.
I've always believed there can never be too many good words between people.
The things we feel but perhaps don't say often enough. The things somebody once said to us that stayed. The words we wish we had said while there was still time.
Some are worth keeping.
And sometimes, instead of simply saying them, perhaps we can give them to someone on a piece of art.
That idea became the heart of my Keepsake pieces — artwork and words created together to hold a moment, a person, a relationship or a memory.
Some can be personalised with a name, date or short dedication, turning the piece into something that belongs to one particular story.
There are the big moments, of course — a new baby, a wedding, an anniversary, a milestone birthday.
But I think I love the ordinary ones just as much.
Because life isn't made entirely of milestones.
And, admittedly, it isn't made entirely of Sunday lunches and quiet cups of coffee either.
Things get a little intimate sometimes, too.
In the shop as well.
Surreal Mindscapes
There is another side to my work that needs fewer words.
Surreal Mindscapes is where I allow the image to carry the story — and where I give myself a little more freedom to follow an idea simply because it appeared.
Some pieces continue my fascination with graphite, painterly texture and disappearing forms. Others move into surreal, photorealistic imagery, where something that could almost be real is interrupted by something unexpected, impossible or slightly dreamlike.
There doesn't always have to be a story behind them. Sometimes an image simply arrives in my mind and I want to see where it goes.
They can be instinctive, surreal, sensual, quiet, strange or occasionally playful. What connects them is less a particular technique than a fascination with atmosphere, fragments, human emotion and the space between reality and imagination.
Some pieces become prints to keep.
Others exist simply to be seen.
I think there is room for both.
Made To Be Kept
The material on which the work lives matters to me too.
My Fine Art pieces are printed on Hahnemühle German Etching 310 gsm, a heavyweight Fine Art paper with a beautiful tactile surface and subtle texture.
I chose it because its character complements the work particularly well. Its natural surface works beautifully with the graphite-like marks, painterly areas and quiet tonal transitions, giving the finished piece a tactile, substantial presence while allowing the paper itself to become part of the experience of the artwork.
The result is a Fine Art print rather than an ordinary poster — something intended to feel considered and lasting.
I wanted to create pieces you wouldn't simply hang on a wall.
I wanted to create pieces you would want to keep.
Because whether they hold a memory, a few words that matter, or simply a feeling you can't quite explain — perhaps that's what art is rather good at.
So make yourself at home, grab a cup of coffee and stay a while.
Karolina
Surreal Mindscapes · Fine Art