Long Remembered Meadows, a solo exhibition featuring approximately thirty new images by Elaine Kazimierczuk.
Elaine's unmistakeable works present us with highly original interpretations of the natural world. Her landscape paintings, though semi-abstract, are personal accounts of what she encounters, realised through a distinctive vocabulary of non-figurative shapes and imaginative gestures.
This recent series of meadow paintings has emerged from visits across the UK taking Elaine to special places where wildflower-rich pastures have remained undisturbed for hundreds of years. Elaine is a keen supporter of initiatives that manage and support fragile ecosystems. Besides our much -depleted native meadows, she has represented several of the famous 'Coronation Meadows'. Sixty of these meadows were created through a scheme begun in 2012 by Prince Charles, to celebrate sixty years reign of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II. To date there are now nintey of these sites, managed by the charity Plantlife, with King Charles III still as their patron. One of these sites Hyde Mill, is a donor site which provides green hay used to seed new sites being regenerated.
Besides making sketches and photographs, Elaine often joins groups of ecologists and botanists carrying out activities such as monitoring species like butterfliy orchards and snakes head fritillaries. These close encounters enrich and inform her meadow paintings.
Elaine's aim is to spark joy in her representations of nature's intricate assembly of wild beauty. She expresses her emotions through the act of painting, bringing her presence to the work, with spontaneous colourful loose brushstrokes and concentrated detail.
The scale of her paintings varies from small intimate pieces to large scale canvases, including diptychs and triptychs. The larger works are especially immersive, allowing the viewer to wander leisurely over the scene and then alight on the area busy with detail before moving off to some other part of the work.
Paintings are rich with high colour, addressing the vibrancy of the natural environment and her unique style is inventive, portraying an obvious delight in the living world, making her work now easily recognisable and collectable.
This is Elaine's third solo exhibition curated at the gallery.