IRENA SKALIK
Painting is my journey into the unknown. I am looking for inspiration, which in my eyes will become an image, I call it "the situational nature of the moment". The shape, light, smell, mood, music in headphones, thoughts circulating in the head, all this, and even more interpenetrating in the right proportions, creates the ephemeral of moments that become the starting point for my paintings. Then comes the moment of silence. The large piece of pure white canvas overwhelms with its impeccability. It smothers the rush, forces reflection until the first brush stroke, then a journey into the unknown begins. Work on myself, on my emotions, struggle with thoughts, with the workshop. A large load of emotional experiences is poured onto the canvas.
For me, the creative process is like a road, sometimes straight, sometimes winding with numerous crossroads, but like most roads, each of them has a goal, a chosen direction in which it is headed.