`NY`, oil on canvas, 122 x 91 cm
We invite you to the Exhibition of works by
MARGARET SKOWRONSKI
to be opened
by NANNA BAYER
Sunday 7th December at 2pm
The Village Barn Gallery, 22 Melbourne St, Triabunna
RSVP Jane & Tom Teniswood
[email protected] or phone 62577583
Artist’s statement
Born in Bialystok, Poland, I spent my childhood in the countryside surrounded by beautiful meadows, fields and forests. I completed High School in Warsaw and graduated from the Warsaw Agricultural University with a Science Masters Degree in Food Technology and Human Nutrition. I worked for several years as a Lecturer and Research Assistant at the Medical Academy in Warsaw.
While in Poland I learned about all forms of art through exhibitions, theatres, museums and books on art history. At this time I tried to express my fascination with art by writing somewhat juvenile, romantic poems. But the seed was planted when I discovered the book by David Weiss ‘Naked came I’ about Auguste Rodin, and the following year (1974) I visited the Rodin Museum in Paris. It was an unforgettable experience.
In the 1970s the political and economic situation in Communist Poland was gradually deteriorating. In 1977 I decided to leave Poland in a quest for freedom, settled in Sydney, where I completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics at the Sydney University, and worked for some years as a dietitian.
During this time, I discovered a new freedom in visual art, exploring the world of two dimensions by using simple lines, colours, ink and textures, and in 3D by modelling in clay/wax, casting in various materials, carving or welding.
Above all, I am aiming for simplicity and honesty in the medium.
Tasmania, where I arrived in 1999, inspired my quest in abstraction. I have always believed in what Piet Mondrian said, “Abstraction has emphasised the old truth that art must be universal, just as true reality is.”
Tom Teniswood, President, Eastcoast Regional Development Organisation Inc. (ERDO),
