Artist's own words
I believe that a piece of canvas I have marked can come alive and look back at me. An obvious miracle – one that doesn’t have to happen, because it owes nothing to stubborn work, reflection, talent, or effort. I don’t know why a painting is born or dies. And I should know – after all, I am the one stirring those little bowls of colour.
Oil paintings
Critics Section
Critics on Her Work
The Mystery of Balance
"A delicate balance of powerful tensions, a calm hard-won amid never-fading drama - this is one of the beautiful mysteries of this body of painting. Against backgrounds of quiet white turbulence, dramatic yet never clamorous scenes unfold."
2025-12-29 12:00
Discreet Pantheism
"The subject of this painting has always been one and the same - the matter of the visible world, captured in its prolonged endurance. It is the world of constituent parts that matters most to this artist; elementary beings are what hold things and compositions in balance."
2024-12-31 20:00
Noble Restraint
"The defining quality of Emilia Piekarska-Freudenreich's work is a modesty that avoids showmanship and intrusiveness like the plague. Her canvases, often executed on fragile surfaces, seem to be a pure shorthand of intellectual and emotional experience."
2024-12-30 17:30
The Art of Fusion
"The composition is so unified, so compact and cohesive, that no seams are visible - the colours hold together and with one another. This is the merit of the unique fusing touch of the artist's mind and hand, one who observes the secrets of visibility and recreates them on canvas."
2024-12-31 17:45