Marta Stolarska
Marta Stolarska, (b. Poland 1988) moved to Norfolk, England in 2007. Since then she lived in Norwich then Birmingham and now is an artist working and residing in a lovely area of Oulton Broad in the picturesque Suffolk.
Having a growing career outside of an art world, in the midst of the global pandemic she discovered the love for art making. With this, the artist could finally put her love for creative crafts and, acquired back in 2012 Interior Design Diploma to a good use. After she started painting back in 2021, in 2022/2023 she completed an intensive Art Mastery course with Milan Art Institute. Since then her art education is strongly focused on workshops and an atelier way of learning, directly from practicing, award winning artists and masters of their craft. This allows the artist to design her learning path to suit her interest, style and sensitivity.
Stolarska's work has been exhibited in prestigious Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in Birmingham, local shows across Birmingham, with some recent being the Birmingham Open, the RBSA Exhibition and ongoing exhibits at a Purple Gallery in the picturesque Bournville area of Birmingham, and locally in East Anglia where she is currently residing. She is also represented in private collections across the UK, Poland, and the United States.
Having a growing career outside of an art world, in the midst of the global pandemic she discovered the love for art making. With this, the artist could finally put her love for creative crafts and, acquired back in 2012 Interior Design Diploma to a good use. After she started painting back in 2021, in 2022/2023 she completed an intensive Art Mastery course with Milan Art Institute. Since then her art education is strongly focused on workshops and an atelier way of learning, directly from practicing, award winning artists and masters of their craft. This allows the artist to design her learning path to suit her interest, style and sensitivity.
Stolarska's work has been exhibited in prestigious Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in Birmingham, local shows across Birmingham, with some recent being the Birmingham Open, the RBSA Exhibition and ongoing exhibits at a Purple Gallery in the picturesque Bournville area of Birmingham, and locally in East Anglia where she is currently residing. She is also represented in private collections across the UK, Poland, and the United States.
Artist Statement
Stolarska's work, characterized as contemporary realism, often explores changing or disappearing landscapes, fleeting beauty of flowers, thrown away pots and vases, some of which she finds while researching her subjects in antique shops, among family heirlooms, or even discarded children's toys found on the side of the road—all reminders of the ephemeral nature of things.
Artist spends time in nature every day, to connect, to capture fleeting moments and inspirations, to create plein air studies and colour notes to use later in the studio for her The Art Of Noticing series. Her Heirlooms and Antiquities, and Fleeting Beauty series are most often created from hand crafted dioramas, with carefully directed light and placement to highlight a particular aspect or effect. Working with strong contrasts increasing the mystery, or conveying the movement of light across the human form or landscapes, the artist invites the viewer to contemplate and develop a deeper appreciation for the beauty, and significance of the everyday.
Due to their permanence, textural depths, colour luminosity and the flexibility, oils are her medium of choice. In most cases the artist will painstakingly produce the support boards at her studio, working mainly with rigid supports, considering the permanence of all the products, to create something lasting, to be with the collector for generations.
Stolarska's work, characterized as contemporary realism, often explores changing or disappearing landscapes, fleeting beauty of flowers, thrown away pots and vases, some of which she finds while researching her subjects in antique shops, among family heirlooms, or even discarded children's toys found on the side of the road—all reminders of the ephemeral nature of things.
Artist spends time in nature every day, to connect, to capture fleeting moments and inspirations, to create plein air studies and colour notes to use later in the studio for her The Art Of Noticing series. Her Heirlooms and Antiquities, and Fleeting Beauty series are most often created from hand crafted dioramas, with carefully directed light and placement to highlight a particular aspect or effect. Working with strong contrasts increasing the mystery, or conveying the movement of light across the human form or landscapes, the artist invites the viewer to contemplate and develop a deeper appreciation for the beauty, and significance of the everyday.
Due to their permanence, textural depths, colour luminosity and the flexibility, oils are her medium of choice. In most cases the artist will painstakingly produce the support boards at her studio, working mainly with rigid supports, considering the permanence of all the products, to create something lasting, to be with the collector for generations.
