Magdalena Orlik's painting is a world of multi-layered, textural images in subdued colors, reminiscent of walls prepared by the tooth of time, cave walls, paths and roads trampled by millions of feet, magnifications of living tissues under a microscope, pieces of the puzzle of everything nature is.
For her, art is a ritual that heals, changes, discovers the deepest layers of consciousness, allows you to get in touch with your own self, and find places ideal for living and reflecting on it.
The artist likes monochromatic combinations of earth colors, she uses natural pigments, particles of sand, old, faded sheets of paper from past eras. Her art is on the border between non-figurative and figurative abstraction. In these earthy, dark or light collages, soft, organic color patches and their outlines are like fragments of reality, they do not allow you to cut yourself off from the matter and glide into unfettered cosmos of interpretation, into worlds of pure ideas. We're here for something on earth, we can't fly away, we have roots that remember the seeds from which they sprang.
It refers to ancient techniques when created in harmony with nature, using what was at hand, stone, water, plants ... Natural pigments like ocher, umber, sienna, charcoal, vegetable dyes all are the truest, rawest part of this earth and contain its energy, layers of history. Each stone lives despite immobility, and each color contains the spirit of its powerful elements. Light and dark, warm and cold, good and bad, through duality we mature, through the constant work of finding balance. It's a process that takes time.
She paints pictures for months, when there is an appropriate moment, when there is an impulse that something must be added, something differently captured, but something must be covered. It is the process that is important, layering, becoming, and stopping in a place that becomes an eternal point of suspension in time and space like photography. The movement of the brush stops but the spirit of the painting lives on in the eye and mind of the observer.
