I am a visual painter working with oil techniques. I come from southern Poland, but since 2014, I have been living and creating in France, in the Lorraine region.
The world constantly forces us to make choices—between light and shadow, movement and stillness, good and evil. It imposes boundaries, reduces ambiguity, and leaves no room for balance.
I want the canvas to become a space where opposites do not fight for dominance but intertwine in an organic dance. Where contrasts do not exclude each other but coexist—mutating, blending, sometimes consuming one another, and at other times creating something entirely new.
My art is a reflection on emotions, identity, and what is elusive yet intensely felt. A human being is a labyrinth – endless, full of hidden corners where I wander between shame and intuition, between control and release.
My paintings capture both the visible and the merely sensed. They attempt to grasp a moment suspended between wakefulness and dream, between conscious choice and the whispers of the subconscious. In a gesture, a gaze, a breath, I seek subtle signs—overt or almost imperceptible.
I travel winding paths where beginnings and endings blur in an infinite journey. I examine patterns and extremes, exploring how dreams seep into reality and reality seeps into dreams.
Katarzyna Kocot-Lewinska 