Anna Lenkiewicz, from the series "My Son's Toys" sketch for a sculpture (2022)

pastel, ink, acrylic/ cardboard 90 x 60 cm

Anna Lenkiewicz: She studied painting at the Harrow School of Art. in London and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She practices painting and intimate sculpture.
She received her diploma in the studio of Prof. W. Sadley and Prof. K. Studnicka.
Her works have been presented at numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, including in Belgium and Sweden.

This is how art critics describe her painting:

"(...) Anna Lenkiewicz is an idealist, having faith in the form and language of painting matter - traditional and professional in the workshop, but revolutionary and uncompromising in her sincerity and belief in universalism like the 20th century avant-garde. In her series of paintings Synthetic Landscapes and Synthetic Still Life, the artist provides a response to the intellectual overload of contemporary art. The artist responds with minimalism, in which the subject and object are basically absent, and the form acts on us, operating on the most physical level - like a breath of air (...)"
Julia Sieminska

" (...) He also analyzes the structure of the earth's matter, its dim, on browns, grays, beiges and ochres based colors, stony and sandy surfaces, parallel rhythms of furrows of plowed fields. For the purpose of his art, he transforms them into characteristic rhythmically arranged convex blobs or rough commas painted with thick paint and short brushstrokes. From these, he constructs the sophisticated, almost relief-like texture of his works, and creates plastic tensions by systematically arranging them on the plane in layers that differ in the direction of their application and color. (...)"
Stanislava Zacharko

"Up there, he continually renews himself in glimpses and makes sense of the world."
Rainer Maria Rilke, ...Dog"
"Fields from Rakoniewice: running diagonally across green, purple, red stretches. Strands of blue, white, and finally - steel gray. There is a perversity in this painting, a non-linear perspective of the masters of Japanese woodcuts and a geometric, disciplined arrangement of spots that brings it close to abstraction. "Meltdown on the Bug River" - Pastel points of yellow, beige, brown, above longer brushstrokes - blue, overexposed. Finally, the longest streaks; gray, steel blue.
Winter, the river, the sky. (...)"
Lidia Pankow
Philosophy graduate, journalist,
editor, writes about art
among others to ART. & BUSINESS.