Artist Statement
Karolina Bawol’s work is all about that otherworldly feeling that nature gives. Her work focuses on the mood and atmospheres that plants and landscapes create to help inspire her. Taking the feeling she has, she translates it into abstract paintings. She looks at the forms, the textures and colours in nature and creates paintings on a canvas that captures the imagine in a loose, blurred way or completely takes them apart to generate a composition that resembles the image in only colour and/or shape. Karolina uses a variety of mediums, such as acrylic paint, watercolours, metal, and resin. Pushing the boundaries of the mediums and combining them, 2D with 3D, to create these compositions that leave you wondering.
Her current projects are a massive turn from her original work, where she looked at figurative paintings with embedded symbolism. The shift in her working came after her Exhibition at the St. Nicholas Church where she began thinking about other ways of making art and showing meaning in her practice. Her realistic paintings of trees and gravestones turned into dry brushed half oval shapes layered over each other in different sizes and directions, creating a portal to this different dimension. The turnout of those paintings inspired Karolina to move forward with the style and expand on the ideas of shapes and colour as responses to nature and landscapes. Also containing loose ideas of life, death and decay. Her biggest questions when creating, are how she can represent nature in a way where it evokes the same kinds of feelings within the viewer as looking at nature themselves.
Karolina Bawol is originally from Poland, but has been living in Bristol, England, for 17 years. She is currently studying Fine art at Arts University Bournemouth, where she creates her work in the Avenue shopping centre studios that resides in the city centre. In 2022 Karolina took part in her very first group exhibition in the St. Nicholas church in Brockenhurst, titled “Ancient and unknown”, presenting her work about the atmospheres and shadows of St. Nicholas church.
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Contact: Karolinabawol16@gmail.com