In Conversation: Artist Talk with Basia Krol
Saturday, Jun 11, 2022 3 – 5 pm
Join us next Saturday, June 11, in the gallery from 3-5pm for an informal conversation with the artist about her painting process and current show, "Wildering". The exhibition is on view through June 18.
Basia's appreciation for landscape painting was rekindled after a trip to the Indiana Dunes in June of 2020. Krol became entranced by a bog in the distance; the reflected sunlight creating a sheen of white and silver over the water, dead trees standing in stark relief as black, almost figure-like, markers of space. She returned to her studio and quickly created her first bog painting, similar to “White Bog (Pink)” which is currently on display. Having painted figures and symbolic or magical realist works in the recent past, the urge to paint this almost primeval scene became a reclamation of landscape painting for Krol who says with a smile, “I guess I went back to landscapes when I was ready to paint landscapes.”
About the Artist
Basia Krol was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland. She studied painting and printmaking at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. She currently lives and works in Galesburg, Illinois, where she finds inspiration in the local prairie nature preserves.