Original Oil Paintings
Where the Pre-Raphaelite dream
meets the contemporary gaze
The Artist
"My work begins in the same place the Pre-Raphaelites began — in a refusal to look away from the world's surface, its textures, its light, its melancholy weight."
Grażyna Krzemińska is a Polish painter whose practice spans over three decades of dedicated studio work. Trained in the classical tradition, she came early to the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood — drawn to their insistence on meticulous observation, the intensity of colour, and the capacity of paint to carry both beauty and sorrow simultaneously.
For years her work carried the unmistakable marks of that influence: the jewelled palette, the devotion to botanical detail, the female figure rendered with a gaze both tender and unflinching. Over time, however, those influences were metabolised into something distinctly her own — looser in places, stranger, willing to let silence inhabit the canvas alongside the image.
Today her paintings occupy a space between memory and presence. They remain richly chromatic, layered, and technically demanding — yet they resist easy narrative, offering instead a mood, an atmosphere, a feeling that lingers long after the image has been seen.
Works
Painting Lines
Each series is a sustained meditation on a single theme,
developed across months — sometimes years — of studio work.
2022 — 2024
Inspired by the tangled undergrowth and ancient woodland light of the Polish highlands, this series returns to the Pre-Raphaelite obsession with botanical precision — rendered with a hallucinatory density of colour and an almost reverent stillness.
View Series2020 — 2022
Painted largely during the quiet of the pandemic years, Vigil is a series of interior scenes and solitary figures — studies in waiting, in attention, in the texture of time when it slows to almost nothing.
View Series2017 — 2020
Objects left behind: a dress on a chair, flowers at the edge of wilting, a half-empty glass. Remnants explores the afterimage of presence — what a room holds of a person long after they have left it.
View SeriesOngoing
An ever-growing archive of smaller works: figure studies, colour experiments, portraits, and sketches in oil. The Studies series offers a window into the daily practice and evolving vocabulary of the studio.
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