Natalia Baranowska

Painting (MA)
An artist sits in a bright studio, surrounded by large abstract paintings and scattered art supplies. She wears a white T-shirt, black paint-splattered trousers, and Converse sneakers.
A large abstract painting featuring bold, layered brushstrokes in vibrant greens, oranges, and deep reds. The composition is dense and dynamic, with gestural marks, drips, and areas of visual tension creating a sense of movement and depth. The artwork is displayed against a white gallery wall.
A large abstract painting featuring bold, layered brushstrokes in vibrant greens, oranges, and deep reds. The composition is dense and dynamic, with gestural marks, drips, and areas of visual tension creating a sense of movement and depth. The artwork is displayed against a white gallery wall.
Prospects, 2025. Oil and marble dust on canvas, 250 × 160 cm.
An abstract painting with a vivid, layered surface dominated by cool blues and teals, intersected by dynamic strokes of yellow, red, and orange. Textured marks and gestural lines create a sense of movement and tension, with areas of translucency and opacity revealing a complex spatial depth. The work is displayed against a white wall.
An abstract painting with a vivid, layered surface dominated by cool blues and teals, intersected by dynamic strokes of yellow, red, and orange. Textured marks and gestural lines create a sense of movement and tension, with areas of translucency and opacity revealing a complex spatial depth. The work is displayed against a white wall.
The Cross, 2025. Acrylic, oil, and marble dust on canvas, 50 × 90 cm.
An abstract painting featuring sweeping brushstrokes and layered forms in cool blues, aquas, and muted oranges. Linear elements and gestural marks intersect across the surface, creating a rhythm of movement and fragmented space. The composition evokes architectural traces and shifting perspectives, and is displayed on a white gallery wall.
An abstract painting featuring sweeping brushstrokes and layered forms in cool blues, aquas, and muted oranges. Linear elements and gestural marks intersect across the surface, creating a rhythm of movement and fragmented space. The composition evokes architectural traces and shifting perspectives, and is displayed on a white gallery wall.
Amor Fati, 2025. Oil and marble dust on canvas, 150 × 180 cm.
An abstract painting composed of layered brushstrokes in cool blues, purples, and warm pinks, with accents of orange and red. The surface reveals a sense of depth through overlapping marks and blended textures, suggesting movement and emotional resonance. Displayed on a white wall, the composition feels both atmospheric and structured.
An abstract painting composed of layered brushstrokes in cool blues, purples, and warm pinks, with accents of orange and red. The surface reveals a sense of depth through overlapping marks and blended textures, suggesting movement and emotional resonance. Displayed on a white wall, the composition feels both atmospheric and structured.
What Remains Unsaid, 2025. Acrylic, oil, and marble dust on canvas, 90 × 100 cm.
A large abstract painting featuring bold, layered brushstrokes in vibrant greens, oranges, and deep reds. The composition is dense and dynamic, with gestural marks, drips, and areas of visual tension creating a sense of movement and depth. The artwork is displayed against a white gallery wall.
An abstract painting with a vivid, layered surface dominated by cool blues and teals, intersected by dynamic strokes of yellow, red, and orange. Textured marks and gestural lines create a sense of movement and tension, with areas of translucency and opacity revealing a complex spatial depth. The work is displayed against a white wall.
An abstract painting featuring sweeping brushstrokes and layered forms in cool blues, aquas, and muted oranges. Linear elements and gestural marks intersect across the surface, creating a rhythm of movement and fragmented space. The composition evokes architectural traces and shifting perspectives, and is displayed on a white gallery wall.
An abstract painting composed of layered brushstrokes in cool blues, purples, and warm pinks, with accents of orange and red. The surface reveals a sense of depth through overlapping marks and blended textures, suggesting movement and emotional resonance. Displayed on a white wall, the composition feels both atmospheric and structured.

About

Natalia Baranowska (b. 1999), is a Polish artist based in London.

Baranowska’s paintings investigate space as a dynamic and unstable construct – how it can be filled, emptied, or disrupted. Her work resists fixed categories by engaging with the figural – the space where abstraction and representation intersect. Her images hover between emergence and dissolution, surface and depth, never fully resolved. “I’m interested in the moment of surprise in painting – when colour and form produce an unexpected result,” she says. Working with oil, acrylic, and marble dust, she builds layered surfaces through scraping, reworking, and accumulation. Colour functions as both a structural and emotional tool; her palette is intuitive yet grounded in theory, creating visual tension and instability. Each painting becomes a site of negotiation – between presence and absence, intention and chance.

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