Katarzyna Klein
In Katarzyna’s own words: ‘I paint distant views of a landscape peppered with buildings. Water or valleys may divide the dwellings, yet they are all connected by the echoing shapes and restful hues of my palette. A foreground is detailed with wildflowers accentuating the perspective planes and graphic lines suggest paths and boundaries.
My Polish heritage surfaces in my work; my naive, pattern-based painting evolved from the folk-art tradition. A recent exploration of the homelands of my family has inspired my latest body of work. Tracing the steps of my forebears I saw the simple wooden houses, once brightly coloured and decorated, and heard stories of wolves and forests, the winter freeze, and storks in Spring. These visual images now enrich my simple and almost fairy-tale landscapes and still-lifes.