Lidia Wiencek

LIDIA WIENCEK (born in 1974)

She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1994-1997. She graduated in 1999 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (atelier of professor Janusz Stanny).

"The depictions of women in my pictures are a very subjective record of some images still-framed in my unconsciousness. In my mind I have visions of many new paintings, but yet I paint spontaneously. When a new canvas is being made, it is not until the very first strokes that I have any idea of how it will look like. I paint some schemes of silhouettes, one after another, and I wonder how to arrange them. Then I start to make choices, I search for the perfect colours and forms..." This is how this emerging painter, whose achievements already account for the long way she has been through, describes her creations. Soon after her graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts she freed herself from the academic manners and started creating her autonomous world reflecting the reality. The creation of pictures is not a defined process, every next layer of the paint reveals the hidden visions. When studying the pictures of Lidia Wiencek we are moved by its great emotional charge, mood and feelings expressed by simple methods. The compositions reveal psychological beauty in a synthetic way. Due to this, in such an art beauty becomes manifestation of truth, as it was meant by Hegel.