A Trace for You
My name is Dominika Jarża.
I am a visual artist. I work where painting and sketch meet — between form and gesture. My work is a process. A change. I search for a language that is never fixed once and for all. I began with colour — intense, dense, full of tension. Over time I began to simplify. To take away instead of adding.
Today I feel closest to the line. Fast, intuitive. Sometimes quiet, sometimes expressive. I am interested in the moment when an image stops being a representation and becomes a record of a state.
My works do not tell stories directly. They hold on to something earlier — an emotion that has not yet been named. Colour returns, but differently than before. As a sign, tension, light.
I see my path as movement: from excess to reduction and back again — towards conscious choice. And I know this is not the end. It is another stage.
My name is Dominika Jarża.
I am a visual artist. I work where painting and sketch meet — between form and gesture. My work is a process. A change. I search for a language that is never fixed once and for all. I began with colour — intense, dense, full of tension. Over time I began to simplify. To take away instead of adding.
Today I feel closest to the line. Fast, intuitive. Sometimes quiet, sometimes expressive. I am interested in the moment when an image stops being a representation and becomes a record of a state.
My works do not tell stories directly. They hold on to something earlier — an emotion that has not yet been named. Colour returns, but differently than before. As a sign, tension, light.
I see my path as movement: from excess to reduction and back again — towards conscious choice. And I know this is not the end. It is another stage.
CREATIVITY STUDIO — creativity beyond the ordinary
For years I have run Pracownia Kreatywności — the Creativity Studio — in Katowice. It is a place where art is not the goal, but a tool. I do not teach “pretty drawing”. I teach people to look, feel and create their own language.
There is no single correct image. There is no single correct line. Children work with different materials — paint, paper and three-dimensional forms. They experiment, search and make mistakes. Because creating is not about the final effect. It is a way of thinking about the world.
In this work, the process matters more than the result. And so does the moment when someone truly meets their own imagination for the first time.
It comes back to me as well. Freshness, spontaneity, freedom from patterns — all of this later appears in my paintings. I run a place where I can pass this way of seeing on to others.
There is no single correct image. There is no single correct line. Children work with different materials — paint, paper and three-dimensional forms. They experiment, search and make mistakes. Because creating is not about the final effect. It is a way of thinking about the world.
In this work, the process matters more than the result. And so does the moment when someone truly meets their own imagination for the first time.
It comes back to me as well. Freshness, spontaneity, freedom from patterns — all of this later appears in my paintings. I run a place where I can pass this way of seeing on to others.
