My name is Karolina Bielawska and I am a painter from Poland. My decision to become an artist was very natural. I was trying to communicate trough painting since childhood. I think the biggest inspiration hides inside you. You have to look deep into yourself to find the most real and honest one. To me painting is a language - I use it as a tool to share emotions, thoughts, and fears. Art has strong connection with society, but stays individual and intimate at the same time. It amazes me.
The shapes and compositions created by me hide various connotations like harmony, balance, intimacy, calmness, but also force, strength, movement and astonishment. My forms offer ambiguous narrative modes, fractal lines and marks accompanied by biomorphic and asymmetric shapes reminiscing mysterious silhouettes. My practice signalizes the inter-dependability between elements that surround us. If one component crumbles, then the whole piece falls apart. My visual language communicates a desire for harmony that constantly collides with violence, oppression, and brutality, turning the canvases into sites of tension and conflict. I take chaos and totalize it into patterns. I also find that the energy, the emotional charge, and the memory of a particular place influence my work, herein shaping a site-specific sensibility.
