Blueberryland is full of unpredictable and unexpected phenomena.

Just when Blueberryer and Blueberryess wanted to go for a nice, evening walk suddenly out of the blue a golden and blue hole opened its mouth and both of them were taken into a new adventure. Maybe they could even wake up in a new Universe? Can they survive inside the blueberry hole? Is there a way to escape from it? Is the blueberry hole less dangerous than an ordinary black hole? Can Blueberryer rescue his Blueberryess without his Golden bike?

The adventure in the Blueberry Hole from the Series Blueberryland #2/n.

Blueberryland #2/n - detail

The idea of taking art to the community came from Jim (my partner). I think he was just bored with my constant monologue about contemporary art, or to be more accurate perhaps I should say modern contemporary art.

My monologue was about these issues:

• How alienated modern contemporary art is from the image about art of the average man and woman in the street. The average person visiting a very contemporary art gallery or modern art centre at the present time doesn’t understand most of the presenting art works. She or he wants to understand the “art works”. Because they can’t understand it, explain it, find any sense in it, they think they don’t possess the academic knowledge about modern art, and they just don’t like it.
• How alienated, exhausted and recessive art that is currently presented in contemporary art galleries, art shows and modern art museums.  Actually, nobody understands contemporary art these days:  not the art historicists, not the art curator, not even the people who are writing the articles in the art magazines or introductions in the books. Very often even the makers/the artists don’t understand them either. They just like it and make it up, because that is what others expect of them.
• Art doesn’t exist anymore. Most of the 'Art' isn't art any more. Nothing is art and everything is art. Art is about personal and emotional engagement. You like it or you do not, you feel it or you do not feel it; it makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you angry, it makes you disgusted. It is OK!  How few techniques and skills are possessed by the new generation of students graduating from the Art Colleges these days.
• Most of the artists presented in museums are talking to themselves, and have an inner dialogue with their empty mind.
• However Pablo Picasso said:  “Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? .. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.” Art is about feeling….or should I say NON-ART is about sensation.  Maybe we never should think about what an artist is trying to convey, just concentrate on what the piece means to you, how it makes you feel. After all it is your personal experience!

And so forth and so forth…..

One day, just a few hours before our trip to the ocean (body boarding) Jim came out with a idea about taking ART to ordinary people and discussing contemporary art and art in general.  “And the word became flesh and dwelt among us” since September 29, 2011.

The primary aim of the project is to take contemporary art out of galleries and museums, to take it out of artist's studios, and to show it to all sorts of different people in a variety of environments and locations around South West England.

We would like to discover from the ordinary people of Devon and Cornwall, what kind of art they like and what they don’t like. What contemporary art means to them? Are they interested in art at all? Is there a place for art in their life, living room, kitchen, mind? Or maybe they are not interested in art at all? These are the sort of questions we are going to be asking people on our travels. Maybe we will ask you too!

The preview of Contemporary Art in the Community

Widemouth Bay, North Cornwall, South West England
Thursday 29th September 2011

In which Graham meets a being born in the nebula of the constellation of Orion for the very first time, and is moved by Mintaka's message for mankind.

]]> http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/10/contemporary-art-in-the-community-1n/feed/ 1 http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/10/gravitys-harlequin-from-peter-pan-series/ http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/10/gravitys-harlequin-from-peter-pan-series/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:03:25 +0000 Kasia http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/?p=742 In this new work from the Peter Pan Series I wanted to capture a movement. I liked the idea of the clown in motion. I have already painted him motionless, so this time I wanted to paint him in action. There is a certain uncertain power which is pulling my little harlequin- clown in one direction. However when you look very close and you pay the attention to the body of the harlequin you can discover an inclination to go in the opposite direction.  And there is also Gravity, the natural phenomenon by which the body of my little friend attracts with a force proportional to his mass. Instead of a force it could of course be space-time curvature instead. An interesting idea for a new painting.

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]]> In this new work from the Peter Pan Series I wanted to capture a movement. I liked the idea of the clown in motion. I have already painted him motionless, so this time I wanted to paint him in action. There is a certain uncertain power which is pulling my little harlequin- clown in one direction. However when you look very close and you pay the attention to the body of the harlequin you can discover an inclination to go in the opposite direction.  And there is also Gravity, the natural phenomenon by which the body of my little friend attracts with a force proportional to his mass. Instead of a force it could of course be space-time curvature instead. An interesting idea for a new painting.


Gravity's Harlequin - acrylics on canvas; € 1.450

]]> http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/10/gravitys-harlequin-from-peter-pan-series/feed/ 5 http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/09/devon-open-studios-2011-third-day-out-of-the-blue/ http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/09/devon-open-studios-2011-third-day-out-of-the-blue/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:20:35 +0000 Kasia http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/?p=705 Yesterday completely out of the blue a German couple visited my studio. They had just followed the yellow signs, not knowing what would be at the end of them. They not only loved my paintings but even bought one. We talked about modern art, especially modern conceptual German art. She lives in Essen and he is from Wuppertal. I absolutely enjoyed my time spent with those two very interesting individuals who really were into modern conceptual art.
She loves my weird stuff, like My Brain

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]]> Yesterday completely out of the blue a German couple visited my studio. They had just followed the yellow signs, not knowing what would be at the end of them. They not only loved my paintings but even bought one. We talked about modern art, especially modern conceptual German art. She lives in Essen and he is from Wuppertal. I absolutely enjoyed my time spent with those two very interesting individuals who really were into modern conceptual art.
She loves my weird stuff, like My Brain



A conversation with my cosmos, 2010 from the Series My Brain

and all my collages but also my more representative work. They thought about buying my Tree.



The Decrepit limbs of Mr Elm

At one point we went to my Summer Studio (I only paint there between late Spring and middle Autumn). When he saw my Blueberry Biker he decided to buy it. So my lovely Blueberry Biker has left me. Now I have to paint his next adventure and his beautiful lover.

In the late afternoon I had another visitor, a lovely lady who visited me a year before.
The third day of Devon Open Studios 2011 wasn't so bad after all!


Blueberry Biker on his way to his lover hidden in a golden cage.

]]> http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/09/devon-open-studios-2011-third-day-out-of-the-blue/feed/ 1 http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/09/the-devon-open-studios-2011-second-day/ http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/09/the-devon-open-studios-2011-second-day/#comments Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:54:21 +0000 Kasia http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/?p=695 Today is the second day of Devon Open Studios 2011. No visitors today. Yesterday a couple with a child visited me. They just saw a sign on the wall and because the child needed to take a leak they stopped and visited me. They were nice people but not really interested in my paintings or in what I am doing or why I am doing it.

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]]> Today is the second day of Devon Open Studios 2011. No visitors today. Yesterday a couple with a child visited me. They just saw a sign on the wall and because the child needed to take a leak they stopped and visited me. They were nice people but not really interested in my paintings or in what I am doing or why I am doing it.

I have created a new installation in the garden. It is about my insomnia. I got the inspiration from my own problems with sleeping and from a book I received from my 'art fan' in Brussels. If he is reading this post, he will be happy to know that I found the publication about Narcolepsy very educational and interesting.

Here is a photo of the installation:



Insomnia - Narcolepsy - Installation 2011 by Kasia B.T.

I am starting to think about my dream to make it as an artist as something very irrational, utopian and pathetic. Who needs art, who needs my art? If you have finished an art academy and if you don't "make it" within the next three years then you will never make it. The talent, ideas, originality, whatever it is of no importance after that. It is just the significance to being discovered by a very important art dealer and some luck. Then the marketing machine will start to work for you. Otherwise it will not.

Here are a few images of my work in progress:



Landscape in gold and blue



A bird in colours of Devon



The Gravitation of the Clown - painting in progress



We are born alone, we die alone together

]]> http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/09/the-devon-open-studios-2011-second-day/feed/ 1 http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/06/a-kind-of-red-from-the-series-return-of-peter-pan/ http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/06/a-kind-of-red-from-the-series-return-of-peter-pan/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:06:27 +0000 Kasia http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/?p=648 Here is my new painting from the series “Return of Peter Pan”. Two good friends Mike and Kasia are thinking about their good friend Biggetje, who left them a few months ago. They are trying to console each other with a big hug. The two little puppets are their toys.  They are in a red-orange-dark red-gold mood. What does that mean? I don’t have a clue. You will have to ask them. I hope you enjoy the painting. It will be available as a quality print as well as at Saatchi Online and at America Fine Art. I will post the links later on.
The title of the painting is “A kind of Red”. Feel free to make your own original interpretation-association between the title and the painting. It is an acrylics work on a deep canvas, 70 cm x 60 cm x 5 cm. Here are two images; the first shows the painting at an early stage, the second the final result.

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]]> Here is my new painting from the series “Return of Peter Pan”. Two good friends Mike and Kasia are thinking about their good friend Biggetje, who left them a few months ago. They are trying to console each other with a big hug. The two little puppets are their toys.  They are in a red-orange-dark red-gold mood. What does that mean? I don’t have a clue. You will have to ask them. I hope you enjoy the painting. It will be available as a quality print as well as at Saatchi Online and at America Fine Art. I will post the links later on.
The title of the painting is “A kind of Red”. Feel free to make your own original interpretation-association between the title and the painting. It is an acrylics work on a deep canvas, 70 cm x 60 cm x 5 cm. Here are two images; the first shows the painting at an early stage, the second the final result.


The begin fase of A kind of Red



A kind of Red from the Series Return of Peter Pan

]]> http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/06/a-kind-of-red-from-the-series-return-of-peter-pan/feed/ 3 http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/05/the-process-of-creating-an-acrylics-painting-on-canvas/ http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/05/the-process-of-creating-an-acrylics-painting-on-canvas/#comments Sun, 29 May 2011 14:51:43 +0000 Kasia http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/?p=640 Last year during the process of painting my Magnolia acrylics paintings I have been recorded myself. I made a short video document from the fragments I recorded. Every single artist has an own unique style of painting. Some love to paint when they are naked, some needs alcohol in their blood, while others prefer a good quality joint. I prefer listening to music and talking to myself. Dependent of the sort of art I create sometimes I sit, sometimes stay up, sometimes I run or walk around the work I create. Large abstract paintings or collages often lie on the floor or on the grass in the garden and I run as a crazy bull around them. From time to time I lie on the floor or kneel down.

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]]> Last year during the process of painting my Magnolia acrylics paintings I have been recorded myself. I made a short video document from the fragments I recorded. Every single artist has an own unique style of painting. Some love to paint when they are naked, some needs alcohol in their blood, while others prefer a good quality joint. I prefer listening to music and talking to myself. Dependent of the sort of art I create sometimes I sit, sometimes stay up, sometimes I run or walk around the work I create. Large abstract paintings or collages often lie on the floor or on the grass in the garden and I run as a crazy bull around them. From time to time I lie on the floor or kneel down.

Here in this short video I am just sitting in the chair in my summer studio, the canvas is in the easel and I behave very normal and conventional.   Sometimes I am normal.

]]> http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/05/the-process-of-creating-an-acrylics-painting-on-canvas/feed/ 0 http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/05/kasia-in-the-countryside/ http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2011/05/kasia-in-the-countryside/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 11:12:13 +0000 Kasia http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/?p=625 I created a video/slideshow to present my art from the last two years. Paintings, collages, installations, small sculptures all created in Devon, in Dunchideock. And of course lots of nature, black swans, trees, a cat and nice music.

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Kasia in the Countryside

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