My Art
Texture Art – Paintings You Can Touch
I create art that’s meant to be touched.
As someone with a deeply attuned sense of touch, I’ve always experienced the world through texture. Growing up, my mother took us to many museums—beautiful spaces filled with art that was never meant to be touched.
I remember the frustration of being close to something beautiful, but unable to feel it.
I promised myself that if I ever made art, it would invite touch rather than forbid it.
Now, I create textured art inspired by nature, movement, and the quiet poetry of everyday moments.
My work is abstract in color, but grounded in the tangible language of the natural world: the softness of moss, the rough beauty of tree bark, the fleeting sensation of ripples on water. I want people—especially children—to experience my art the way I longed to as a child: with their hands, their fingertips, their sense of wonder.
What Inspires Me?
Mostly Nature, but also the unseen: sunlight and shadow, the cosmos, and the vast internal landscapes of the human experience. I explore themes of duality, contrast, unity, and motion—how everything is always shifting, transforming, evolving.
There’s a metaphysical and spiritual thread running through much of my work. I see art as a way to slow down and engage with the subtle forces that shape our world.
The Creative Process
Every piece begins with texture. I sculpt it using unexpected tools—sticks, fabric scraps, kitchen utensils—and only after the texture has fully dried do I begin to apply color. The texture itself guides me. Sometimes, what starts as a sun becomes a flower. In the grooves and ridges, a school of fish might suddenly appear. These moments of surprise are part of what I love most.
I’ve learned to trust the process and suspend judgment—because the texture always knows more than I do at the start.
Sustainability as a Way of Life
Long before sustainability became a buzzword, it was simply how I lived. I grew up in communist Poland, where scarcity shaped everything. We learned to be resourceful, to reuse, to repair.
At an early age I learned to sew and fix things, but also how to spot potential in the overlooked and unwanted. That mindset became the foundation of my artistic process.
I often work with repurposed materials—thrifted canvases, slightly damaged frames, and unlikely tools like old cans, sticks, fabric scraps, or even cleaning brushes.
My textures are sculpted using tools as ordinary as cake lifters or funnels. My main medium is drywall compound, which I modify with my own mix to achieve the perfect feel and strength, sealed with commercial-grade varnish for durability.
To me, creating art shouldn’t depend on having access to expensive supplies. I believe everyone is creative—it’s just a matter of finding your medium, your voice, your way in.
My art gives discarded materials a second life, and I hope it encourages others to do the same.
Selected Works
Here Comes the Sun
2024
26″x26″, Textured art, mixed media on upcycled canvas
This piece is a tribute to the warmth and power of the Sun. The textured surface creates a sense of movement—like sunlight radiating out in waves you can almost feel.
Layers of yellow, orange, gold, and copper flow from a bright center to softer edges, capturing the journey of light and energy as it spreads outward. Depending on the light in the room, the colors shift and come alive in different ways—sometimes glowing, sometimes soft and subtle—much like sunlight itself.
Flower of Power
2024
28.5″x28.5″ Textured art, mixed media on upcycled canvas, framed by the artist
Soft, flowing forms meet bold color in this textured piece inspired by nature’s quiet strength. Shades of pink, mauve, and purple come together to create a shape that feels like a blooming flower—but at its center, a circular core hints at something deeper, like the energy of a nucleus.
This piece is about vitality, growth, and the power hidden in even the most delicate forms.
Abundance
2024
18″x18″, Textured art, mixed media on upcycled canvas, unframed.
This textured piece draws the eye inward—from deep navy edges to a glowing center of gold and copper. The circular form echoes an ancient coin, evoking the richness of Aztec or Mayan relics. Fine ridges across the surface add a tactile rhythm, like the grooves of a vinyl record—whispering the sound of something timeless, maybe even a spell.
Abundance is a quiet reminder that wealth isn’t always material—sometimes it’s a feeling, a frequency, or a memory we carry.
SOLD!
Sunburst Fresco
2024
42″x42″, textured art, mixed media on upcycled canvas, framed by the artist.
This large-scale piece captures the moment when light breaks through—bold and radiant. A textured sun spreads its rays across the canvas, shifting from gold to pink to copper, like sunlight peeking through clouds at day’s end. Along the edges, raised textures hint at treetops or drifting clouds, painted in warm, fiery hues—as if the sunset itself set the landscape alight.
The background carries the soft, time-worn feeling of an old fresco, inspired by the Renaissance masters. It’s both ancient and immediate, still and full of movement.
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
– Kurt Vonnegut