ELŻBIETA BUDREWICZ
FINE ART
She has been passionate about painting for years. She watched, even absorbed the paintings of masters in museums and albums. She has been painting since 2012. She gained knowledge and artistic skills through reading specialist literature, online courses and working hours at easels. She attended painting workshops at the Municipal Cultural Center in Celestynów near Warsaw (2015 - 2016 led by Mrs. Jolanta Drawnel) and creative painting workshops in Józefów (in the studio of Mrs. Weronika Dąbrowska 2016).
From May 2018, a member of the Association of Artists of the Otwock Region.
When it comes to formal education, she has a master's degree from the Faculty of Finance and Banking of the Warsaw School of Economics. He has over a dozen years of work in a corporation on the capital market in Warsaw.
'When painting, I combine subtle, cool colors with warm or saturated colors. Strong contrast between the elements is also important.
She paints with oil paints, acrylics and pastels. Her works include a series of flowers and landscapes, characters and still life. They are a record of inspiration by nature, emotions or circumstances, e.g. 'when I paint a specific flower or landscape, I see it through the prism of autumn mists, the first snow'.
In order to be able to appreciate the beauty of the surrounding world, it must be juxtaposed with its strong, dark side.
When it comes to the technical side, when I paint, I don't try to include every detail, no matter what the topic is. Good art should leave room for the recipient to engage with the subject in his own way.
A picture is painted with impressions, emotions, although apparently realistic, it always contains an element of abstraction - it brings the beauty of the world around us closer. Pictures have the power not only to change the walls. Art changed my life. Looking at art, devoting a few moments to experiencing it, gives you the opportunity to de-stress, has a positive effect and changes the way you think. I would like my paintings to give the recipients positive emotions and allow them to find their own place of comfort.'
She took part in two individual exhibitions in 2016. and 2020. She also took part in group exhibitions and plein-airs, including the summer outdoor weekends with art as part of the activities of the Vena art club at the Municipal Cultural Center in Józefów in 2019, exhibitions of the Association of Artists of the Otwock Region, outdoors organized in the garden of painter Bożena Stawikowska or recently in the painting plein air at the Open-Air Museum in Sucha near Węgrów in 2021.
Exhibition "Treasures of Celestynów" 18.02.2022 Galeria PMDK Otwock as part of the 70th anniversary of the Celestynów Community
Exhibition of Otwock Artists and Friends 8.10.2021 Gallery of the Theater Jaracza Otwock
Painting plein-air and post-plein-air vernissage 4-13.08.2021 Open-air museum in Sucha near Węgrów
The exhibition Mikołajki 6.12.2019 MOK Józefów
Outdoor weekends (exhibitions and classes) with art as part of the activities of the 'Vena' art club operating at MOK Józefów - July - August 2019.
Elżbieta Budrewicz
Selected Exhibitions/Events
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