Marachowska ART

MARACHOWSKA ART

ART AS AN ACT OF LIBERATION OR ETERNAL CATHARSIS

ON THE ARTISTIC WORK OF MARIA MARACHOWSKA

For Maria Marachowska painting represents an act of liberation, when she immerses into the element

of art, the empty canvas or a sheet of paper means infinity to her. In her artistic expression, she knows

no boundaries, the painter’s brush in her hand seems to take on a life of its own, becomes the key to an

intensely personal, mysterious world. When she paints, she draws from the strength of her rich

memories and her experience of life, quiteremarkable for an artist as young as herself and capable

of touching us just through their truthfulness and authenticity.

In her works, her experiences are transformed into pure energy and emotions which are transmitted

to the spectator, it is impossible to withdraw from the deep attraction of her images, they virtually

absorb through their oscillating, often almost hallucinatory colours and their suggestive shapes. It is

her artistic credo not to adjust whatsoever to anything that has existed, she cannot be assigned to any

existing art style, her works speak of universal forces, far beyond any conventions. Inspiration comes

from within herself, from her innermost feelings, her joys and pains which she transfers into her

visionary image compositions, as if to relieve of an oppressive burden – creation is a basic need to

her, inseparably linked with her life.

The process of her artistic work is only comparable to a natural phenomenon: the wave effect and

extension, caused by a pebble that touches the water surface and spins apparently infinite circles,

one arises from the other, a constant development and renovation, generating always new, innovative

art works and image series. Maria Marachowska’s art is cosmic, seems to be connected to the stars,

abstraction opens new dimensions of perception, something sacred and sublime is inherent to her

oeuvre, radiates a healing power.

The apocalyptic air, penetrating to the surface in many of her paintings, gives no reason to anguish or

grief, but announces a new world in which the Fantastic has defeated cold rationality, through the

awakening of an all-embracing cosmos, she gives reason to hope, her images give us a hint of a lost

world before the beginning of time, to which there is no more access in normal life.