Beata Wisniewska Kowalewska, painter

I paint what can only be felt.

A haptic abstract painting, slow and silent, born in a 19th-century stone house in the heart of the Marais Poitevin.

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A canvas from the ABUN cycle hanging on a stone wall
ABUN cycle, on a stone wall
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Four doors into the light

One threshold and three cycles, each born from the last: to be, to walk, to create. Each is a stage of the same inner path.

The threshold

ABUN

presence

I

STATUS EXISTENTIAE

To be

II

VIA LUCIS

To walk

III

CREATIO LUCIS

To create

My painting is born of silence. I paint what the heart recognises.

Beata Wiśniewska-Kowalewska

The façade of the house and studio covered in flowering wisteria

The Studio of Dreams

A stone house in Vix, wisteria on the façade, roses in the garden. The upper floor, long left empty, has become a refuge of light where every canvas is born.

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A blue and gold planet in its nebula.
A blue and gold planet in its nebula.
A white and gold nebula in motion.
A white and gold nebula in motion.
Angels and seraphim.
Angels and seraphim.
A blue and white spiral.
A blue and white spiral.
An ethereal angel figure on a blue ground.
An ethereal angel figure on a blue ground.
A pink and violet swirl.
A pink and violet swirl.
Blue swirls and sparks of gold.
Blue swirls and sparks of gold.
An ethereal blue figure.
An ethereal blue figure.
Blue, white and gold.
Blue, white and gold.

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The Light That Was First

On the symbolism of light in the Bible and art that is born from silence“Let there be light.”(Genesis 1:3)Before shapes appeared.Before things were given names.Before the world received its boundaries.There was light.Not as decoration. Not as something whose only purpose was to dispel darkness.Light appears at the very beginning of the story of creation.And perhaps that is why, for so long, we have tried to paint it.Not only because it is beautiful.Perhaps because we recognise in it something we

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