Mathematics is the most precise way to describe the world, but there is another—Art. While mathematics defines reality through formulas and numbers, art seeks harmony in ideas, emotions, and feelings—elements that, by their nature, defy measurement.
My work explores the human experience in the modern world, focusing on individuals as they navigate their physical and spiritual spaces. I strive to uncover emotions and depict the forces that shape and influence each person. My visual language merges abstraction with realism, drawing on archetypal imagery and the symbolism of color to create a universal yet contemporary meaning.
Bożena Jędrzejewicz
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2010 - 2020: sea series
selected oil paintings on canvases
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2000 - 2010: from my atelier SERIES
selected oil paintings on canvases
MY ATELIER
An artist’s atelier is a foundry of ideas—a space where elements of reality transform into artistic expression. It is also a sanctuary for the artist, whose creative process demands endless hours of solitary labour with paint, canvas, and other media.
The atelier's window bridges the outside world, allowing the ever-changing daylight to filter through. Eventually, that light, dancing within the confines of the window frame, becomes a subject of study for the artist—captivated by the subtle shifts in colours and textures. The window takes on landscapes' role for the Impressionists: the eternal presence of Nature, waiting to be observed, portrayed, and understood.
The atelier's window bridges the outside world, allowing the ever-changing daylight to filter through. Eventually, that light, dancing within the confines of the window frame, becomes a subject of study for the artist—captivated by the subtle shifts in colours and textures. The window takes on landscapes' role for the Impressionists: the eternal presence of Nature, waiting to be observed, portrayed, and understood.
Mathematics is the most precise method of description of the world but there is another one – Art. While the first defines reality by formulas made of numbers, the latter tries to find harmony of ideas, feelings and emotions, which by nature escape any measurements.
My work is focused on humans as individual beings in the modern world. I try to discover their emotions and to define person’s physical and spiritual space, as well as forces, that he or she is under and interacts with. My visual language juxtaposes abstract with realism, reaches to archetypal imagery and symbolism of colors in order to create universal, contemporary meaning.
Bożena Jędrzejewicz
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Five Colors
"Five Colors" is an installation of five works created between 1991 and 1997
250 x 200 cm | oil on canvas
250 x 200 cm | oil on canvas
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1980 - 1990: Selected PANNEAUX
AND SELF-PORTRAITS
AND SELF-PORTRAITS
mixed media on paper, various sizes
1985: Other Sides (Drugie Strony)
mixed media on paper | 530 x 300 cm | 1985
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1984: Through The Power Of Big Trees
1984 | 400 x 250 cm | watercolor on paper
Standing for art, which expresses what is the most fundamental and carnal in humans, but often hidden deep in subconsciousness, I have steered away from politics and ideology. At some point, however, I gave in to the collective consciousness of the early 1980’s in Poland and painted this monochromatic composition. The inspiration came from walks in the woods, which I used to make regularly with my child, as an escape from the greyness of the city, the limitations, monotony and hopelessness of the Communist Era, an era when the only freedom was in the imagination and dreams. The sight of timeless trees, strong and firmly rooted in the ground, was giving me hope to live to the coming of better times. I felt unified with those majestic trees and understood that we endure here patiently together, becoming stronger, against changing political situations. Personified trees are a merged form, with powerful trunks, which are their backbones. They are the archetypal ‘sacred tree’ - axis mundi - connecting earthly and cosmic powers, the centre point of the new world from which the regeneration begins. And so it was, system transformation began here in Poland, the totalitarian system collapsed and the dreams of freedom we all had around 1984 finally came true.
Bożena Jędrzejewicz, Kraków 1990
