Elaine Kazimierczuk – Oxfordshire Artweeks

309 Elaine Kazimierczuk

Region: Charlbury – North & West

Artform: Drawing, Painting

Elaine Kazimierczuk chooses the natural world as an important focus for her painting, such as wildflower meadows, hedgerows, cottage and botanic gardens. Her vibrant semi-abstract landscape paintings are personal accounts of her encounters with places, often threatened or vulnerable habitats, based on a vocabulary of non-figurative shapes and gestures. A keen supporter of initiatives that manage and support fragile ecosystems, her aim is to represent nature with its intricate assembly of wild beauty. Her own locality in the Cotswolds provides a wealth of subjects, besides temperate rainforests found across the British Isles. A recent visit to Rwanda, to experience different landscapes, in particular tropical rainforests, is generating a new series of work. The scale of her canvases varies from intimate studies that can sit on a bookshelf to diptychs, triptychs and very large pieces to fill entrance lobbies, board rooms and larger living rooms. Several pieces hang in therapeutic settings, including a hospital convalescence unit in the USA and a centre for men in crisis in London, where their uplifting and restful qualities help provide a warm, welcoming environment.