GESTURES - the unspoken thoughts.

Gesture allows us to express ourselves, and it also shapes the way we understand and interpret others.

I like paintings that are somewhat unfinished or abstracted, in which not everything is fully realised. Art where the viewer can finish the story in their mind and in their own way. I think that way there is more room left for interpretation and feeling. Space for finding out what that particular artwork means to you.

In the “Gestures” series it is the movement of the hands, and the body language highlighted in the paintings’ composition that are treated in this unfinished, sketchy way - that leave the window open wide for personal interpretation.

By relying on my instinct in putting the lines in a gestural way, I’m also hoping to grasp the most important information, the essence of my subject. I feel that a dynamic, expressive line communicates more information, and suggests movement, emotion. It can also create focal interest and bring the viewer’s attention to one particular part of the painting.

- Agnes Grochulska