About – danielpawlowski

Daniel Pawłowski

I have been creating and painting for as long as I can remember. My artistic spirit was awakened and nurtured from an early age by Waldemar Biliński, an artist and teacher from Włocławek. His art studio became a place of work, play, and most importantly, learning new fields and techniques of art. From wooden and clay sculptures, ceramics, and various kinds of collages, to drawing, pastels, watercolors, and finally my beloved oil on canvas. As a child, I was already familiar with the entire process of creating a painting, from stretching the canvas, priming, to applying the paints. I painted my first oil painting at the age of 10, and from that point on, I painted more and more, focusing primarily on oil painting techniques. Painting consumed a significant part of my time from an early age. I diligently honed my skills through various portraits and copies of works by great masters, all while trying to find my own artistic identity. I am a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, specializing in Conservation of Monuments.

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Inspirations

‘Non omnis moriar – I shall not all die’. – This thought has become deeply engraved in my consciousness and is one of the main inspirations for my painting. In my compositions, the human being often appears as the centre of the surrounding world or as its inseparable element. Tossed about with various feelings, from passion, through melancholy to rapture, he turns on the wheel of life, enmeshed in the incomprehensible order of the universe. Man here is part of a metaphysical plant from which he has grown and which he himself waters and creates. Paradoxically, in issuing his last breath, it will be up to us alone to decide whether he is the bearer of life or death. For a believer, it will be the life of an immortal soul; for someone else, immortality in memories, deeds or works. The often intertwined worlds in my paintings are the different paths of this very soul. Hence the staircase I often exhibit as a motif of a journey, an obstacle or a certain decision. The boundless sky full of stars, in the face of which man appears as nothing, contrasts with the surreal structures of temples or earthly nature.

I can't hide the fact that the same female figure runs through many of my paintings. It is my extraordinary Wife, also referred to as my muse. I must admit that not only because of her incomparable beauty, but above all for the impenetrable beauty of her soul, for which beauty is a pleasing addition to the eye. It gives me immeasurable pleasure to compose her silhouette or portraits into all sorts of melancholic visions that I try to discover in her mind, which she probably doesn't even know about. However, the main component without which it is hard to imagine my work are the sculptures.Both figures, especially in the classical spirit, but also sculpture as an architectural detail – of buildings and temples intricately constructed over the years. I have come to love sculpture as an endless sea of inspiration that I can reshape, surround with a new world and in all of this it is unobtrusive. It does not dominate. Its versatility opens up countless possibilities of interpretation for the viewer. The sculpture in the painting evokes sentiment, stimulates reverie, and ennobles with its permanence. I like to interject bodily silhouettes into my sculptural-fantastic structures to contrast with the almost eternal stone. To stimulate reflection on the transience of life in this way. In my compositions, I also frequently use the motif of stained glass, which has always been a symbol of heaven on earth, or one could even say a portal, bringing this very heaven to earth. A fluid and ephemeral border between two worlds. It is to live in the light that man has been called and towards the light that he should strive to achieve true life. As the title of one of my paintings reads: Victoria Anima – for the Soul to prevail.

2019

‘Robinson’s Ship’, Museum of Architecture in Wrocław.

2019

International art fair ‘Carrousel du Louvre 2019’, Louvre, Paris

2019 – 2020

A series of group exhibitions ‘Niepodległa – Suwerenna’, under the patronage of President Andrzej Duda, among others:

– Kolobrzeg Contemporary Art Gallery.

– Szuszarnia Art Gallery, Browar B Cultural Centre in Włocławek;

– Museum of Minsk Land in Minsk Mazowiecki;

2020

series of group exhibitions ‘Reflecting the Mystery’, among others:

– Diocesan Museum in Kielce,
– Museum of Coins and Medals of John Paul II in Częstochowa,
– Kashubian Philharmonic in Wejherowo,
– Museum of Magical Realism in Ochorowiczówka,
– Rembieliński Palace in Warsaw;

2022 – 2023

Exhibition of work at the Jan Kasprowicz Museum in Inowrocław.

2024

‘Ekstaza Kopernika’ exhibition at the District Museum in Toruń, Copernicus House.

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