Before I tell you about the blue...

Hi, I'm Natalia.

If you've found your way here, you've probably already noticed a lot of blue, water, sky, and shadows. So before I start sharing the stories behind specific paintings, colours, and inspirations, I thought I'd first tell you why this place came to life.

For a long time, I wanted to have my own space on the internet. Not just a gallery where you can browse finished paintings, see their dimensions, or read their titles. I wanted to create a place where I could also share everything that isn't immediately visible.

Where an idea for a painting begins.

Why I keep returning to the colour blue.

What I saw during my travels, and why certain places stay with me long after I've left them.

What I felt before the very first brushstroke touched the canvas.

Because to me, a painting is never just an object hanging on a wall. Before it exists on canvas, it often lives quietly in the back of my mind for a long time. Sometimes it begins with the stillness of the sea. Sometimes with light reflecting on the water. And sometimes with an emotion I can't quite put into words.

That's why this blog exists.

I don't want to give formal lectures about art or pretend to be a critic of my own work. I simply want to write the way I'd talk about my paintings over a cup of coffee. No complicated language, no trying to convince anyone that they have to see exactly what I see.

Art doesn't work that way.

What feels like peace to me might feel like longing to someone else. What reminds me of the sea may remind someone else of childhood, solitude, or a particular journey. And I think that's one of the most beautiful things about painting: every artwork begins with the artist, but it doesn't end there.

A little about me

Painting has been part of my life since secondary school and art high school. Later, I studied Fine Arts at the University of Rzeszów, where I created my two graduation series: Half-Light and Identity.

In Half-Light, I explored landscape, space, and nature.

In Identity, my focus shifted to the human body, shadows, and the many different versions of ourselves that we carry within.

Although these two series are quite different, they share one element that I always seem to return to: the colour blue.

Blue appears throughout my paintings as the sky, water, light, depth, but also as emotion. Sometimes it brings a sense of calm. Sometimes it introduces distance or coolness. And sometimes it creates the feeling of existing somewhere between reality and memory.

So why does this colour stay with me so deeply?

That's something I'll explore in my next post, because the answer is far more complex than it might seem.

What you'll find here

I'll be sharing stories not only about finished paintings, but also about everything that happens before they come to life. The journeys, landscapes, and fleeting moments that later find their way back into my studio. The sea, the sky, the human body, shadows, and emotions.

I'll also show a little of everyday life in the studio—unfinished canvases, experiments, ideas, failed attempts, and those unexpected moments when a painting suddenly begins to take a completely different direction than I had originally imagined.

I don't want to create an idealised image of an artist's life, where every brushstroke is carefully planned and the studio is always beautiful and perfectly tidy. I want to show painting as it truly is: sometimes peaceful, sometimes chaotic, and sometimes deeply personal.

If you'd like to step a little deeper into my world, I'd love for you to stay.

And before you go, I'd love to ask you something.

What does the colour blue mean to you?

— Natalia

This one has been hanging in my place for a long time and I keep coming back to it. I am not going to play an art critic here, I will simply tell you why this colour and why this particular frame.

A word about language

I write in Polish, because it is my language and I feel free in it, I can say exactly what I mean. You will find the English version as a translation, so that people from abroad can read along too. And one more thing that matters to me: these texts are not written by AI. I write them myself, in my own way. A typo or an overly long sentence will slip in now and then, but in return it is entirely mine.

Thank you for being here. Stick around, because there is a lot coming. And if you feel like seeing the paintings, take a look at the gallery, all the rooms are hanging there.