Iwona Jankowski
Houston, TX
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Artist's Statement:
I have the ability to see beauty in every aspect of my life and I have a need to share it with others. I hope my art will bring some people escape, peace and provide relaxation from today’s daily lackluster world.
An essential part in my artistic growth was my Art School sculpture teacher Elzbieta Szczodrowska. She taught me to identify with the sensitivity in the world around me, to see, feel and finally become the subject. I recognize dependency between the subject and the immediate environment. She showed me how to ignore destructive aspects and emphasize on the important parts, sometimes a very tiny detail, in order to understand and show the idea. That finally led me to effective use of visuals to depict a story behind my subject.
Additionally, another significant influence on my art is my fascination of the simplicity and the perfection of clean forms found in the prehistoric paintings of Lascaux caves.
Having the tendency to simplify forms, to concentrate on isolated details, and accentuate on light-shadow dependency in my subjects, can sometimes give the impression that my paintings appear more abstract.
I can always find inspiration for my paintings in nature and the world around me.
My artistic stimulation is endless and will continue as long as the world around me exists.
Artist's Bio:
Iwona Jankowski was born in Poland. Her fascination with art started at a very early age.
After graduating from the School of Visual Arts in Gdynia, Poland, for one year, she studied drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland.
In 1981, Iwona Jankowski moved to United States where she continued her education at Houston Community College under the Computer Science /Computer Graphics Major. She continued to work in Digital Graphics, Graphics Design as well as in Multimedia, Computer BaseTraining, IT, and Software Development.
In 2000, after many years of encouragement from her husband, she made the tough decision to walk away from a lucrative position as an art project manager to pursue a full time career in fine art. Her professional carrier in commercial art and project management helped her to broaden her art skills, and continue to identify as well as develop her own means of artistic expression. Iwona Jankowski is a contemporary artist who has experience in every art medium including sculpture, oil, pastels, pencil, charcoal, digital art, and silk screen printing as a medium for her original art. However, most of her paintings are done in oil.
Hundreds of Mrs. Jankowski’s original paintings, as well as her most populat “Sexy Flowers”™ series paintings can be found in numerous world wide collections throughout the United States, Tahiti, United Kingdom, Belgium, Australia, Canada, Dominican Republic, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Germany, Sweden, France, Holland, Italy, Greece, Austria and Ireland
