Grażyna Tarkowska

Abstraction

 The Abstraction series distills the artist’s visual language into pure form, color, and rhythm. Without figures or landscapes, these works explore chromatic tension, geometric structure, and intuitive movement, revealing the underlying energy that also shapes the other collections. Abstraction becomes both method and subject—an open field of emotion, memory, and atmospheric resonance. 

Animals

 The Animals series distills animal forms into bold silhouettes shaped by color, rhythm, and expressive geometry. Each figure becomes a symbolic presence rather than a literal depiction, revealing temperament through pattern, contrast, and distilled contour. Together, these works extend the same abstract language found in the Abstraction collection—transforming living creatures into vibrant carriers of emotion and visual energy. 

Landscapes

 The Landscapes series transforms natural scenery into rhythmic arrangements of color, light, and geometric form. Hills, fields, and trees are reimagined as layered contours and repeating patterns that emphasize movement over depiction. Through this distilled visual language, familiar environments become abstract spaces shaped by emotion, memory, and chromatic energy. 

Portraits

 The Portraits series turns the abstract vocabulary of color and geometry toward the human figure. Faces and bodies are simplified into rhythmic shapes and chromatic tensions that emphasize inner resonance over likeness. These works echo the structural clarity of the landscapes and the symbolic intensity of the animals, forming a third branch of the practice where human presence becomes an abstract field of emotion, memory, and character.