As an artist, I’ve always believed that creativity begins long before a piece of paper touches the table.
It begins in the places that move us — the environments that shape our inner landscape and open something quiet inside us.
Over the past months, I’ve been exploring new layers, transparencies, and forms in my collage practice.
Along this journey, I discovered something unexpected:
certain places have a profound influence on my art, my imagination, and my creative process.
In this article, I want to share two of these places — places that have shaped me since childhood and continue to inspire the way I create today.
1. The Forest: A Natural Space of Calm and Creative Clarity
The forest has always been a place of grounding for me.
Even as a child, when life felt overwhelming, the trees and their quiet rhythm helped me settle.
The forest’s atmosphere — soft, organic, gently structured — still influences my artistic language in subtle yet powerful ways.
How the forest influences my collage art:
- organic shapes and flowing curves
- natural overlaps and soft color transitions
- a sense of quiet rhythm within the composition
- layers that feel calm rather than busy
When I create, I often notice that the feeling of the forest returns — not in literal imagery, but in the emotional tone of the piece.
It reminds me that creativity thrives when the body is regulated and the mind has space to breathe.
2. Church Windows: Light, Color, and a Sense of Belonging
When I was a child in Poland, I spent a lot of time in church.
What touched me most was not the ritual, but the light — especially the colored light shining through stained-glass windows.
It was my first experience of feeling connected to something larger, something meaningful.
That atmosphere of light, stillness, and color has stayed with me throughout my life.
Today, I see this influence clearly in my work:
How church windows shape my visual language:
- layered transparencies that let light through
- shapes that resemble windows, openings, or portals
- color fields that overlap like stained glass
- compositions that feel contemplative and spacious
This connection is not religious — it’s artistic and emotional.
Church windows taught me how light can become a story.
Letting My Art Speak: A Creative Process Guided by Inner Spaces
One of the most surprising discoveries in my creative journey is this:
My art often knows where it’s going long before I do.
It speaks — and I’m learning to listen.
The forest brings grounding.
Church windows bring light and openness.
Together, they form a kind of inner geography — spaces that guide my hand, shape my color palette, and influence the quiet energy of my collages.
My recent work is filled with windows, circles, translucent layers… and now I understand why.
These forms are my way of exploring inner belonging, inner independence, and the quiet places inside myself where creativity lives.
Finding the Place Within
For a long time, I searched for a sense of connection in the outside world.
But through my art, I’m slowly learning that the place I was looking for is inside me —
and that every collage is a window into that inner space.
Art is how I listen.
How I ground myself.
How I reconnect with the deeper layers of who I am.
If this resonates with you…
…you’re warmly invited to explore my latest collages, inspired by light, transparency, and the quiet beauty of inner spaces.
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