A dental surgeon by profession. To use the fittingly medical terminology, she caught the artistic fever some twenty years ago when she first tried her hand at painting. She is a member of the Lublin Society of Friends of Fine Arts and the Kazimierz Confraternity of Fine Arts. Most of her works are in the hands of private collectors, both in Poland and abroad. She paints landscapes, flowers and portraits, often including abstract and surreal elements. Izabela Edeńska’s artistic competence also extends to iconography. She works with oil, acrylic, and watercolour. For several years, she has also been writing poetry.
One of the author’s typical devices is the use of white canvas which she does not overlay with a colour base, which gives her imagery a somewhat blurred, whitish and cold undertone. All of her paintings are set in rich, expensive frames – often a counterpoint to an unassuming painting. ‘Windmill Landscape’ and ‘Stork’s Nest’ are two works representative of her style.
Windmill Landscape
Windmill Landscape –a portrayal of Dutch landscape, painted in acrylic on an A-5 canvas. The image can be divided into two distinct sections, some 1/3 comprising the sky and the remaining 2/3 the earth below: fields are shown in perspective with a single vanishing point on the horizon. The central focus is a windmill in brick-red and brown with 4 wings arranged in an X-shaped pattern. The perspective allows for a glimpse of trees and further buildings above and to the right of the windmill.
The sky is painted in cold-blue and grey. The field hints at lines of cultivation – either crops or flowers, as emphasised through the use of colour: pink discoloured with violet, hues of blue traced with yellow and ochre with an undertone of darker grey – the author uses minimalistic and fast brush strokes, thus bringing out the respective colour undertones.
The painting is signed and dated in the bottom right-hand corner.
Stork’s Nest
Stork’s Nest. A painting in acrylic on a 30 x 35 cm canvas. The width of the image is taken up by a nest occupied by 3 storks: one of the birds sitting, the other two standing next to each other. The storks are of similar size – white with hints of black feather tips on the wings, red beaks. Gentle but energetic brush strokes used on both the nest itself and the animal figures sweep over the finer details creating a sense of movement and add an impulsive/vibrant quality to the colour palette. The nest is a tangle of fine lines in a variety of colours. The backdrop of the sky is a mingle of blue (in various shades) with intermittent empty, white spaces. The painting is signed in bold in the bottom right corner.
