Dreamtime, oil on canvas, 39 x 59"
Polish artist Aleksandra Staniorowska-Buła creates abstract paintings, primarily in oils, that captivate viewers in unexpected ways. Her working process has two stages. At the beginning, she prepares an underpainting, and then pours a mixture of turpentine and the desired pigment over the primed canvas. A short stage, it lasts one to two hours, “and I have no full control over it,” she says. “The effect of the action of turpentine is random. Although I can control the color and distribution of structural accents, I cannot exclude spontaneous modulation resulting from the turpentine properties or from the differences between individual canvases. After the underpainting is dry, I start the second stage, overpainting. This last stage of painting may take over a month and is preceded by the preparation of the project, based on the underpainting composition.”
Aleksandra Staniorowska-Buła in her studio. Photo by Katarzyna Staniorowska.
Hebe, oil on canvas, 59 x 39"
Her oil Dreamtime is a fundamental thread in Aboriginal mythology, she says. “It refers to time— before the time when all beings did not yet have a specific form. In it, a transformation took place into the known.” In Hebe, she says, “I decided to focus on the subject in the painting for centuries depicted in the background. Draperies are common, even banal in the multitude of representations, that is tame and in this same time secondary. I decided to manifest the discretion of the drapery, revealing its restraint.”
Staniorowska-Buła has been a finalist and winner in a multitude of competitions and exhibitions around the world.
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