About Magdalena Morey

Haunting and incredibly close, vast and vivid landscapes with a fixed horizon emerge from Polish painter Magdalena Morey’s colour-intensive abstractions, most of them depicted from a high vantage point on the boundary between sea and… Read more

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Clear blue expanses, green and yellow vegetation, a fiery red evening glow – the landscape of Asturias comes to life in Magdalena Morey’s abstract figurative paintings. For the Polish artist living on the Costa Verde, the dividing line between sea and land forms the basis for an aesthetic exploration of painterly boundaries. In her works, the energetic moment of transition between abstraction and figuration is so soft and light that it feels like seamlessly moving from dream to reality.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Haunting and incredibly close, vast and vivid landscapes with a fixed horizon emerge from Polish painter Magdalena Morey’s colour-intensive abstractions, most of them depicted from a high vantage point on the boundary between sea and land. The name of the region in which the artist has lived for some time sounds like an aesthetic manifesto for her abstract-figurative images: Asturias, Costa Verde.

As a mixed media artist, Morey explores various materials and techniques in order to express her inner emotional landscape. Always driven by the desire to more deeply explore the psychological and spiritual dimensions of human nature and perception, she incorporates local cultural and geographic characteristics into her painting. The local ecosystem is constantly pushing the boundaries of her own perception and creativity so that, in her images, external stimulus and internal expression encounter one another like two individual beings.

When we look at Morey’s art, we immediately feel this energetic interaction of internal and external forces, which last but not least can be identified in the delicate boundaries of the visual vocabulary as it moves between abstraction and figuration. The hidden traces and pathways of a green and vital vegetative landscape, the cool blue of the Atlantic, the mysterious depths beneath the expansive surface of the sea – all this and even the ominous distant horizon reveal the artist’s rich and emotionally deep exploration of the subjects of landscape, culture and aesthetic abstraction.

Stephan Reisner

VITA

2008	Pitman Advanced Computer Art and Design, Cambridge, England
1995-2000	Masters degree (Distinction) in Painting, Marie Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
1990-1995	Diploma (Distinction) in Textiles, C.K. Norwid Art College in Lublin, Poland

Exhibitions

Permanent Exhibitions

Higher Art Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan, USA

East West Fine Art, Naples, Florida, USA

Galleri Tornby, Skagensvej, Denmark

Tavira D'Artes, Tavira, Portugal

The Darryl Nantais Gallery, Linton, Cambridgeshire, England.

Signet Contemporary Art,Chelsea, London, England

Corte Real Gallery, Paderne, Algarve, Portugal

Art5 Gallery, Brighton, England

Claremont Contemporary Art, Sevenoaks, England

DNG Contemporary Art, Auchterarder, Scotland.

Wychwood Gallery, Deddington, Oxfordshire, England - Galeria Siguenza, Siguenza, Spain

Solo Exhibitions

2018	Darryl Nantais Gallery, near Cambridge, England
2014	Galeria Scalia, Baden, Switzerland
2005	The Michaelhouse Center, Cambridge, England
1995-2005	Manual Painting Studios, Lublin, Poland

Group Exhibitions

2023	“Sobre la Mujer” - Gijon, Spain  Gallery Moryta, Fukuoka, Japan
2022	Gallery Moryta, Fukuoka, Japan  Galería Galicca, Santiago de Compostella, Spain
2021	Gallery Moryta, Fukuoka, Japan Galería Galicca, Santiago de Compostella, Spain  Asia Art Fair, Fukuoka, Japan “Art Signed By A Woman”, Galería Espai Cavallers, Spain
2019	“Naturalezas Inventadas”, Noreña, Spain Gallery & Barrow, Bath, England
2018	Gallery & Barrow, Bath, England “Taste of the World”, Back to the Picture Gallery, San Francisco, USA Galería Juca Claret, Madrid, Spain  Galleria Aurea, Rome, Italy
2017	Galleria Aurea, Rome, Italy Feel & Flow Galeria, Madrid, Spain  The Lane Gallery, Truro, England
2008	The Darryl Nantais Gallery, Cambridgeshire, England
2005	Fisher Hall Art's & Crafts Fair, Cambridge, England