GOSIA ORZECHOWSKA

Gosia Orzechowska is a Polish-born artist based in Canberra. Soon after completing her 5 years of tertiary studies in the Academy of Fine Arts in Poland she migrated to Australia. With her solid background in oil paintings, etching, sculpture and modern art installations she kept experimenting with different media to finally focus on painting mostly in acrylic. Gosia’s latest paintings are inspired by nature. In her current works she often depicts wild Australian flowers. Gosia’s fascination with Australian native plants didn’t happen overnight. As a migrant she went through the process of exploring, understanding and falling in love with local native nature. It took years to finally reach the level of technical proficiency to be comfortable with facing the challenges Gosia now finds for herself in her art. Although Gosia’s works are representative and very detailed it is not her aim to create photo-like paintings. She enjoys playing with detailed and un-detailed areas, with soft and hard edges, solve the challenges when it comes to colours and forms to show how expressive flora can actually be. Whether the subject is representative or abstract she is constantly intrigued by finding that sweet spot of just the right blend of colours, structures and other elements of the composition to complement each other, to create a compelling visual experience. It is a process an artist keeps learning all their life. Gosia’s motto: “I paint therefore I am”