Ursula SZULBORSKA, Autumn Tree

60x80, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2022

I was born in Lublin, where I spent the first stage of my life. After graduation, I moved to Olsztyn to work as a teacher and sensitize children to beauty. Here I also organized my first author's exhibition on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of Olsztyn, where I showed children, parents, and teaching staff paintings and drawings of this charming city.

After a few years of hiatus in my artistic activity, I completed my painting workshop from scratch and began tentatively to draw, paint, photograph, and returned to my passion again. It became a break from the, sometimes difficult, reality for me, gave me a sense of freedom and fulfillment. I began to open up more by participating in group exhibitions, including Themerson Street 5, Jubilee Exhibition - Plock Art Gallery, Art Confrontations - Warsaw 2018, National Coal Drawing Contest - Leczna 2018 - 3rd place. I used to draw for family and friends, my works have found their way into many private collections at home and abroad.

Now I devote more and more free time to painting. I look at images of the outside world, I observe, I delight in it, I get curious about its diversity and beauty, I analyze the emotions accompanying it, and then I record my observations. Through visual form I show the reality around me: the one around me and the one in me. I live it, but I am constantly searching. The thoughts and feelings that arise in me lead to the need to create and search.