"Looking at the paintings of Joanna Brzostowska you get an impression that you are surrounded by lush, vibrant vegetation, a vision that's absolutely breathtaking. It's a very feminine and accurate way of illustrating the beauty of our planet. Joanna is a contemporary artist. Her art is not about the realistic depiction of bunches of flowers, rolling hills and meadows or the bucolic wandering turkeys; she is using her paintings to share her feelings and her personal relationship with nature. Joanna speaks to us through her paintings. "Look at the beauty that surrounds us", she says, "here are the gorgeous remains of the natural world, that have not yet been poisoned by toxic waste or paved with cement. Look how bright the greenery is, how iridescent the orange is in the petals of those flowers - I am sending you a message using the play of the colors, I speak to you using dashes of paint in the buoyant and dynamic form of nature.

It is not important how we classify Joanna's art. It might be called impressionism, postimpressionism, a flirt with abstractionism or maybe even an action painting or a mosaic. What's essential is that the artist uses the splashes of color, the generous impasto (an area of thick paint or texture applied by putty knife or brush) on the good old canvas. She is not using any superficial forms of artistic expression, her art is an organic part of her, it is as close to nature as it gets. Joanna's art is alive with  rich textures and a unique palette of colors. The composition is always open and set in modern Impressionism, harking back to Claude Monet and Władysław Podkowiński. Joanna cannot be grouped with other Polish Impressionists or Colorists. In her art one can find a simple and at the same time very competent art technique. Her artistic personality and great passion dominate the paintings.

Joanna has created her own artistic style; the vibrant colors, the freedom of expression, and the rich texture in her paintings make each of her pieces of art unique and recognizable."

written by Jerzy Mech/writer and artist

Art Gallery

Artist’s Curriculum Vitae:

2009 Exhibit in Local Color Café and Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
2004-Present Ongoing exhibit in my author gallery, Art Gallery Konstancin
2006 Exhibit in Café Flora, Seattle, WA, USA
2005 My paintings used in filming of the Polish movie ‘Pensjonat pod Roza’
2002 & 2006 Exhibitions at the American Embassy and Chopin International Airport, Warsaw
2001 Exhibition in ARKA Gallery, Warsaw
2000 Exhibitions in:

• Art Novum Gallery, Warsaw
• ZPAP Gallery Sukiennice, Cracow
• Bistro de Paris Opera, Cracow
• ARKA Gallery, Warsaw
• 1999 Exhibition in:
• Bistro de Paris Restaurant, Warsaw
• Business Center Aktyn, Warsaw
• Gamma Due Gallery, Warsaw

1998 Exhibition in Glaza Expo Design Gallery, Gdansk
1997 Exhibition in:

• ARKA Gallery, Warsaw
• MITO Gallery, Warsaw

1995 Exhibitions in:

• The Katarzyna Napiorkowska Art Gallery, Warsaw
• Zapiecek, Warsaw
• MITO Gallery,Warsaw
• ARKA Gallery, Warsaw
• Praska, Warsaw
• De Nuo, Warsaw
• Canaletto, Warsaw
• Triada, Sopot
• Glaza, Gdansk
• Sukiennice Gallery, Cracow
• YAM Art Gallery, Zakopane

1994 Exhibition at ARKA Gallery, Warsaw
1992 Exhibition at TOP CAR exhibition hall, Warsaw
1991 Exhibition at The Beata Szubska’s Gallery, Warsaw
1990 Exhibition at The Stork Gallery, Rouen, France
1989 Private exhibitions, France (Fontenay, Cannes, Paris) and Germany (Hamburg, Cologne)
1988 Exhibition at Grand Hotel Art Gallery, Cracow
1986 Exhibition at Art Gallery, Kazimierz Dolny
1979 Masters of Arts, Painting and Sculpture, Department of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture, PWSSP, Wroclaw, Poland
1979 Masters of Education, College of Education, Wroclaw, Poland