Stefan Orlowski

I am a portrait and landscape painter working solely from life and memory, either with sitters in the studio or in the countryside. Intensity of mark making, emotional resonance and a dialogue between subjective beauty and corporal honesty typify my painting. It is an excoriating process borne of a desire to communicate the utmost intimacy and tenderness. The figurative paintings are often introspective, psychologically tense and carry an undertow of pathos. It is a practice based around feeling above all else.

The use of traditional materials, such as lead white and its layered application, root the work in a long tradition of painting, but I hope to bring these methods into a contemporary and personal visual language.

MA FINE ART Wimbledon College of Art 2012. Represented by Castlegate House Gallery. Work in private and public collection internationally.

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