Sometimes things are simply overwhelming... I can only guess that keeping balance for this little hen is quite a challenge. But she keeps her face straight. The amount of dishes is truly impressive. To dive or not to dive? Maybe just looking will do the job? But the water seems so joyful and friendly... So maybe, just maybe, all the troubles will turn out to be manageable? Courage, little hen ..read more

With the sun going higher and the days getting longer gotta look for the signs of spring in the kitchen. Little birds say that "Spring is coming to the kitchen" is my newest kitchen portrait in stitches. It is 46 x 57 cm big and contains all kinds of spring surprises. Fresh milk and eggs with the promise of new life accompanied by colorful morning chorus. Clean plates are blooming and fresh water brings much needed vital energy. First greens appear everywhere slowly taking the kitchen space of. Even the old wooden floor can't resist as if trying to connect with sweet blooming memories ..read more

Ever wondered what the restaurant's backstage at wedding party looks like? I did. So here is my textile vision of such a place. Many tasteful dishes impatiently waiting for their turn, all dressed appropriately and a bit excited. The pans could easily recognize it is a wedding time by the special lighting turned on. Big chandelier spreads the golden light on everything for the bright prospect of newly-wed's life. Even the floor keeps tidy, arranging accidental rubbish into lace patterns... Let's not forget the wedding cake! I know it is just my fantasy and reality may be less charming ..read more

Here is my newest textile work with a cooking theme. I finished it some months earlier but much to my surprise I had to revisit it and make some changes. The idea came from an older piece where I visualized the beginning of spring as a big pot boiling with first blooms. "Summer cooking" was made in the summer and I thought it was done although it looked differently from what you see now. I liked it and the response from viewers was great but it dawned on me that people see something different from what I wanted to show. At first it didn't bother me (everything in the eye of beholder of cour ..read more

Another Hildegard's from Bingen vision made in stitches. This is the biggest one (so far) - 65 cm in diameter. Don't know about you, but for me there's definitely the calming effect of looking at her 12th century model of the world and realising it is pretty much the same as today. As long as the earth revolves it is all same old. It is not clear what is in the centre because it keeps changing through the centuries but it doesn't matter that much. If I was asked for the one thing that could make our life better it would be respect. And I mean it in the broad sense - respect for life, nature ..read more

The name of cauliflower comes from Italian "cavolfiore" which means "cabbage flower"(and this comes from Latin caulis - cabbage and flos - flower). In Polish "kalafior" we don't see neither cabbage or flower but at least it sounds great. And the fresh white colour of the first cauliflowers really adds sparkle to the veggies stalls. Do you remember my "Green market" (it is HERE)? Personally I love the taste of cauliflowers but I also find their interesting shape inspirational. Last year it was used in many forms. Ever seen "Cauliflower tree": And you may remember fermented cauliflower I pre ..read more

Not the newest of my kitchens but the one that took the longest to complete for sure! It started in 2015 (HERE)and was meant to be done fast. Oh well... Yes, it was the amount of handwork involved that took so long. And I don't mean stitching daily for all those years but rather the breaks much needed after stitching every utensil by hand. Landscape in the background was like a fresh breeze - open space with spots of greenery here and there. And I learned a lot along the way. Not so about the stitching but definitely about history and cooking the Italian way. I love to read on the subject ..read more

Here is more of my works for our small group of textile artists "15 x 15" (see the previous work in this series HERE). After the essence of the French landscape the time has come to create something in the style of the artist from this country. The very first thing coming to mind were still lives with food by Paul Cezanne. So I went for him. Stitching like Cezanne wasn't that easy but it was fun anyway. "Cheese and pears" - textile art in the post impressionist manner. Bon appetit ..read more

Some years ago I read an essay by Olga Tokarczuk on her relationship with trees. She was dreaming about the machine that would be able to recreate stories witnessed by old trees through their life. I immediately "saw" this kind of gramophone and the songs it could play. The many different small worlds rising and falling around the same tree for 200 or 600 years. It was fun to create all the variety of small landscapes, with little details here and there. I love to create landscapes in small formats and they are always more about emotions than the real views. Here are the most recent ones ..read more

The longer I live the more cycles of life are clear to me. And I find them very uplifting, especially when things look bad at the moment. It is like, you know, watching bare trees in winter with the awarness of spring coming sooner or later. So who is surprised that playing with a new circle of trees inspired by Hildegard's von Bingen vision will be the best choice for some mindful and meditative artwork? Not me. Working on this piece connects so many elements and ties them all in a wholeness, just like mandala. Of course the most mysterious and intriguing is the centre: But each seson ha ..read more