Wojciech Górecki, Cztery Pory Roku, Zima / Eng. Title - Wojciech gorecki, four seasons, winter

Maybe I should start this story from the fact, that... We are some 20-25 km from Gdansk, and it is not easy for me to talk about this place. Since, I live here for two and a half years And I haven't got used to it as much as to my beloved city of Gdansk. I discovered this place with my wife more than a decade ago and it has been my home for nearly three years now. This is Marszewska Kolonia. Wojciech Gorecki, The Four Seasons, Winter This is where I work now, where I paint throughout the four seasons of the year. All of the four seasons and the Nature is a hymn of praise... ...to the Lord as a thanks giving for having created this world so marvellously. An I am just watching and doing my best to paint it as well as I can. There is such an abundance of magic and beauty in the landscape and people living here. for nearly a year, I could not get used to this place by the absence of noise. Pervasive silence, no cars, no people. I had never realised how much we were immersed in all this urban noise, how incapable of living without it we were. But after such a natural calm down I would never come back to the city. With no people around it is so much easier to pull myself together to work. What original I can say about painting ? I think almost nothing, actually. Many artists keep telling a lot about their feelings I will not add anything to it, truly. because so much has already been said and written about painting. Surely, painting and any relationship with art. Must change a man. I do not know what kind of a man I would have been, if I would not become a painter. When practicing one form of art, you are getting closer to any other art this is very beautiful. Because when I look at people who do not need art at all, I feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for people who are not attracted by literature, music, or film. People having no desire to own paintings or to look at them are -- so to say -- poorer. People who did not read at least a couple of finest pieces of literature or poetry, did not watch at least ten movies. well, let's not fear the word -- are poorer than those who did. For a long time I had believed, that painting was not my main vocation. I had been dreaming of directing films, acting perhaps -- I had seen film as my eventual vocation. But in time I realized, that painting is the great passion and love of my life. There is no walk, no free time, when i'm not thinking about it. And I think, this is my true passion, that fills me completely. The area I live in is so picturesque that it is really hard to imagine a better one for painting. Well, one could imagine in fact, but it would have to be in some warmer parts of Europe. But in winter anyway, I would arrive here because... The stream of Reknica carves its way through snow and ice so beautifully -- it is really worth seeing. It is a river which lies 20 km from Gdansk. while at the same time it's having such a mountain climate, that really deserves the caress of camera lenses and painters' eyes. so... The landscape is charming here and very much of help to all those wishing to paint outdoors, just as I do. Passion for painting appeared... It is hard to identify. It is such a moment in the human life... ...which is a very elusive. Certainly the first meeting, with paintings re productions, of Russian Champions. that my aunt used to bring me from her office. She used to bring me pencils and crayons... and I just tried to make a copy of those pictures. Together with my friend Basia, who lives in France now, near Paris We were sitting for hours and painting. surely it is associated with this, that in my day, when I was growing up there was no television. i did not have to... or I could not primarily to watch a thousand minutes per day of various cartoons or movies. just simply wanting to experience a world of fantasy, with indians and cowboys I just had to paint it. That was my movies. and there, maybe then, it has began the adventure with drawing. After twenty five years in this profession I know, how hard it is to be an artist in Poland -- a person who is not paid a regular monthly salary, whose profession is associated with great uncertainty of tomorrow ...because... ...the nature itself is so variable. ...and... ...it requires from us, to be adapted to it. In my work I have to conform to the nature, the weather. sometimes you start painting in the spring of one year, and finish the spring of the following year. This is a very, very hard job. Of course, looking very nicely to an outsider. A free man, unattached to any company or a boss or any director. there is no master above you, so to speak. who would make you work under the lash but this inner lash, must be inside you Without this inner motivation you will achieve nothing. This is a very difficult - A lot of people can not do it. ...it is a very difficult - to motivate yourself to everyday work. I am really missing here, surely other light. and I am therefore planning to travel abroad in the nearest future, to find some other landscape. Marszewska Kolonia is very beautiful, but staying here all the time is just like having the same dish every day. I sometimes watch Discovery or the National Geographic channel on TV and think "My God, I wish I could be there now, put up my easel and paint a picture." No doubt, I am tempted to look for more interesting places -- well, maybe not more interesting, but different. No doubt, it is my dream to travel and paint the whole big world. I certainly made several artistic trips -- I visited Greece and Siberia. and I dream of discovering new spaces, new temperature of light. First of all, this is a dream to visit Normandy, where Claude Monet worked -- Etretat. I would like to go and paint there very much. This place is so beautiful -- I have seen it on many paintings and I wish I could paint it too. Do i succeed? I do not know. Wojciech Gorecki was born on April 23, 1959. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland. Landscape painting and printmaking are his major fields of work. In 2009 he was given a honourable mention in the Art Renewal Centre contest held in the USA. Directed by: Music: Pictures by: Edited by: