Painting light, presence and transformation.
Contemporary painting exploring the relationship between light, perception and the visible world.
Faro, Portugal · Working internationally
Light is both subject and force in my painting. It reveals and conceals, transforms familiar forms and challenges the boundaries of perception.
Working across landscape, architecture and the human figure, I explore moments of presence and absence, where forms emerge, dissolve or become something other than what they appear to be.
About the Artist: Grażyna Ostrowska
A LUZ DOURADA, Tavira
Acrylic & oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm (24 x 32 in).
Original painting is: SOLD
Shadows of a Veranda on a Sunlit Wall, Faro.
Acrylic on panel, 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9 in).
Original painting is: AVAILABLE
The shadow of a palm tree on the pavement, Faro.
Acrylic on panel, 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9 in).
Original painting is: SOLD
Palm leaves in Jardim da Alameda.
Acrylic on panel, 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9 in).
Original painting is: AVAILABLE
Passage to Cais das Portas do Mar, Faro
Acrylic on panel, 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9 in).
Original painting is: SOLD
The Walls of Seminário de S. José, Faro.
Acrylic on panel, 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9 in)
Original painting is: SOLD
Renaissance Façade of Convento de Nossa Senhora da Assunção, Museo Municipal Faro Algarve.
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 cm (9 x 12 in) > SOLD
Interior Courtyard of Convento de Nossa Senhora da Assunção, Museo Municipal Faro Algarve
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 cm (9 x 12 in).
A Modernist Building in Faro.
Acrylic on panel, 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9 in).
Painting is not something you enter when conditions are right.
Painting is the condition.
Light interrupts and erases.
Forms lean and dissolve.
The canvas is not a window and not a message.
It is a stage.
Everything that enters it must justify its presence through relation — not through meaning. What matters is not what things are, but how they stand, interrupt, and hold space together.
Words come later, if at all.
Painting comes only from painting.
Shadows at the Biblioteca Municipal Gate, Faro
Acrylic on panel, 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9 in)
The tree-lined entrance to Jardim da Alameda, Faro
Acrylic on panel, 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9 in)
The Façade of Teatro Lethes, Faro
Acrylic on panel, 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9 in).
A LUZ DOURADA, Tavira
Acrylic & oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm (24 x 32 in). > SOLD
A LUZ SILENCIOSA, OLHÂO
Acrylic & oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm (24 x 32 in). > SOLD
A LUZ QUENTE, OLHÃO
Acrylic & oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm (24 x 32 in).
A LUZ — a short series of bigger paintings, carried by liquid light and warm, glowing colors.
Light is not depicted, but felt — pressing, flowing, shaping the image from within.
The paintings remain open, held together by warmth rather than certainty.
Cadeiras Amarelhas, Olhão
Acrylic & oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm (24 x 32 in). > SOLD
Tv. Alexandre Herculano, Olhão
Acrylic on panel, ca. 35 x 45 cm (14 x 18 in) > SOLD
A porta amarelha
Acrylic & oil on canvas, ca. 35 x 45 cm (14 x 18 in).
Peach Wall, Olhão
Acrylic on panel, ca. 35 x 45 cm (14 x 18 in) > SOLD
All works shown here were painted in the Algarve during past years.
They are executed primarily in acrylic on canvas or canvas panel; selected works combine acrylic with oil paint sticks and oil paint.
All paintings are original works and are available for purchase, as listed.
They can be viewed and acquired physically in the Algarve.
For current gallery details or private sales, please contact me directly via DM.
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