AMSTERDAM
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I didn't really have a proper studio , I was unsure about many things then, and I had a lot of very strong emotions that needed a direction. I could have gone to school, but instead I met a group of young painters from Germany and got swept away by the "new energy" in art . It was a great time. I found a good studio space in Amsterdam and for many months worked almost non-stop. My first big solo show was in Galerie Jurka in Amsterdam.
"Two" housepaint, acrylic and spray
Paris,
Most of my paintings from that time were about the same size, 3ft by 4ft or 4ft by 5ft. I used unstretched canvas or sheets stapled to the wall , most of the time I used a layer of gesso primer. Sometimes I liked to paint straight on some strange looking blanket or sheet. Those months I was painting one painting a day, more or less. I knew several young painters who worked like me, all the time. The painting above was one of the first in a style that was to last a few good years and transform with time. The female figure appearing so often in my work at that time reminds me of my search for identity in a new world, with my home country, Poland, under martial law, with my personal life shattered...
"A day in Paris"
My objective was to find answers in art and keep on painting even if the answers were not coming, every day. Not much else was important, money to live and paint, fleemarket clothes, going out to clubs at night.
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Those years I used cheap acrylic paint, house paint, spray cans and whatever worked.