Ines Ligatur
Babuszka is one of my most important paintings. I have always been fascinated by faces on which time has left a visible mark. There comes a moment when the skin stops pretending to be young, and the face begins to tell the truth. You can see in it history, emotions, experiences, and everything that can no longer be hidden. These are the faces I love to paint the most.
Colorful Babuszka is a variation on my original painting. In the original version, it is realistic; here, it transforms — the colors become more intense and geometric forms appear. The painting also changes under UV light.
The Golden Babushka is a variation on the theme of my painting. Originally, it was a realistic portrait. Here I used primary colors and lines. From the lines, a face and a colorful scarf emerge. It is a painting that I have already painted three times, in different versions. And something seems to me that I haven't exhausted this topic yet.
The forest is the richness of life, the richness of colors and sounds. Here I approach it in a simplified, monochromatic form. I had the pleasure of living in a house, near the forest, for several years. Watching it, how it changes, inspired me to create these paintings.
The forest is the richness of life, the richness of colors and sounds. Here I approach it in a simplified, monochromatic form. I had the pleasure of living in a house, near the forest, for several years. Watching it, how it changes, inspired me to create these paintings.
Palace&Lama is a landscape of my hometown. Warsaw risen from ashes of the IIWW and grew into city full of opportunities and life. The story of my city always reminds me that no matter how bed things get there is always hope for the bright future. Can you spot the lama?.
I painted Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 while she was still alive. The Queen was the formal patron of hundreds of arts organizations: the visual arts, music, theater, dance, and crafts. Queen Elizabeth was often depicted in culture, also in the form of caricatures, about which she had a distance and a sense of humor. I hope she would like this picture.
When I am painting this portrait, he is of one of the richest and most influential person in the world, smoking a joint against the background of his space rocket. An eccentric billionaire. It's 2022. The world moved forward..
Space Nuns is a portrait of women often called the Weed Nuns. They describe themselves as "sisters" but have no ties to any official religious community. They produce medical marijuana for the sick. The sisters claim that their work is spiritual and healing, and they consider cannabis to be a natural health supporter.
Great-Gramma is a portrait of my great-grandmother. In Poland, medicinal cannabis was legal and used in pharmacies until about the 1930s. That is, until the moment when the law began to be adapted to international drug policy. What was a legal medicine for thousands of years has only become banned for a few dozen.
Mrs. Renata is a portrait of a very good friend of mine. Unfortunately, she passed away, but before she did, she told me the craziest stories from her life. One of them was about a time when she was growing cannabis for her son in an allotment garden in Warsaw, Poland. Mind you, it was extremely risky and illegal at the time. She was very proud of the fact that it grew so enormous she had to call the neighbor to help her cut it with an axe. I painted this portrait in her memory.
Mikko is a portrait of a friend. A figure built of lines emerges from the canvas. The black in the eye sockets symbolizes the chaos/universe that everyone carries within themselves. Colourful lines as if in a prism create a layer of reality, and ultraviolet paint in the gaps gives depth to the image.
Morocco is one of the most important countries in the history and present of cannabis, especially hashish. This relationship is long, complex and full of contradictions between tradition, law and economy. This is an example of a country where the law has long lost to tradition and economics, and today it is trying to catch up with it. This is my self-portrait in the Berber turban.
