Cycle Year of the Peacock
Natasza Niedziółka
At the beginning there is always a need and a will to experiment with specific constellations of shapes, colours and textures – this is how Nicole Hackert of the CFA Gallery in Berlin characterizes the painting of Natasza Niedziółka. Indeed – at first contact with her paintings there is a predominant sensation of energy, a feeling of the force of an experiment and its substance.
Natasza’s paintings are sharp in colour and matter.
Her style is slightly ‘juvenile’, essential, intensive, and sometimes impetuous, with a colourful excess and simplification of shapes. Her paintings, on the verge of abstraction, draw from nature and folk motifs. Demi-circle colourful forms such as peacock tails, umbrellas, and Łowicz bands of colour … Here Natasza is suggesting rather than evoking certainty: man or bird, an outline of a building or a flag, gate or hill? Or perhaps, a pure geometrical motif? We do not know for sure. However, she provides us with the certainty of hard facts in her paintings: paint and paper texture, as well as a feeling of the reality of elements from beyond a painter’s palette: threads, pieces of textile, pins, staples, jewellery … A rich collage of materiality. And a predominant feature – untamed colour, sharp and decisive: yellow, ultramarine, red and black. Even if the colours are more delicate - pink, beige and white – they are very intensive in Natasza’s paintings.
Natasza Niedziółka gives shape to emotions in her paintings, she does not explain or intellectualize excessively. Although we can find figurative elements in her paintings and read a certain narration from them, in general, they are abstract and open enough not to hinder their free interpretation.
