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Barbara Palka-Winek
You cannot miss these paintings. The intensity Starting from a delicate sfumato, she goes to a
and energy of their colour make you notice them strong, thick texture, from soft, nearly fluid forms
from a distance at each exhibition. Even though to hard surface. She uses non-painting materials
Barbara Palka-Winek emphasises her Upper Silesian and incorporates them fully into her composition.
origin, interpreting her fabulous red and bold colour She lets her painting go beyond the canvas, attack
solutions through a stereotype of “black Silesia” space with shapes and colour, appropriate light and
longing for a colour would be a huge simplification. build shadows with sculpting textures. In her own,
The more so because playing with colour constitutes mysterious ways, she reaches this special light and
only a fragment of her painting’s essence, an glitter not only on the painting’s surface.
important one but still a fragment. Her search full Regardless of the nature and subject of individual
of emotions embraces the entire painting matter. series, Barbara Palka-Winek’s paintings always
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