George Kosinski - Artist's Statement

"When we paint as artists, we touch on a process
that we can't put into words. Hence we paint" (1999)

I was privileged to have been brought up by Polish refugees on the west coast of Cumbria. I suppose I must have lacked roots from the beginning and remember, as a child, looking out of my bedroom window to the Irish sea and wondering who lived on the other side! Little did I know there was a little Irish girl growing up, who would become my wife

Over those years I looked longingly at the beautiful mountains of the Lake District and the Furness Peninsula and continued to wonder who lived on the other side!

So I became a traveler before I traveled, an explorer from a distance, developing the art of wondering and imagining. I also enjoyed my time as an architect, defining spaces and relationships, focused within a sacred area called a "drawing board"

I always painted

After a while, I realised I couldn't be confined by the edge of the drawing board and had a burning desire to venture, at all cost, forgetting to consult with my family. Taking a long break from architecture, we traveled to the Middle East and settled for many years in Jerusalem. Settled is probably the wrong word as I discover I am a sojourner at heart, as I write from Grassy Creek, secluded in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina

My paintings are primarily expressions of experiences as I interact with a very beautiful world around us - a remnant of Creation, with glimpses of its former glory. I get lost in studying relationships of light and form, colour and texture, balance and harmony, set in proportion - these are all essential parts of my palette

There is a pilgrimage associated with sojourning and a continued love for exploring widths, depths, heights. There are no normal boundaries for an artist. It's a disaming profession especially when we work under the Hand of the Master Artist.