Dimensions: 70 x 90 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'EMILIA | DURKA'
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'EMILIA DURKA | "MEDITERANEO", 2022, MENORCA | 60 x 80 cm | OLEJ NA FLATNIE | (IMPREGNATED)'.
Biography
Graduate of landscape architecture at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid with scholarships at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and Ohio University. She studied fashion design at Escola d'Art and Superior de Disseny de Valencia, and urban landscaping at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.
Painting and drawing have faithfully accompanied her from an early age. Many years spent surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea have significantly influenced her impressionistic brushstrokes and the colors of her works, as if bathed in sunlight. The artist currently lives and works between New York and Warsaw. She specializes in oil and pastel paintings. The artist's work is a reflection on the existence of man in a state of solastalga, a painterly record of the landscapes she encounters, the transience of impressions. She draws inspiration from the work of post-impressionists, expressionists, primitive art and French nouvelle vouge. Currently, the painter is working on a collection of paintings entitled. "Eden in Crisis," which is part of a broader initiative related to research on the restoration of historic gardens in times of climate change and armed conflict. The painter's paintings were exhibited in the group exhibition Vespres d'Art a Baixamar (2022) in Mahón, Balearic Islands. Her works are in private collections at home and abroad - in Switzerland, France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.
