Miłosz Matwijewicz is a landscape painter using watercolours and oil paints. He rarely paints other subjects. He paints flowers, still lives, but it’s the landscape that inspires him the most. A landscape with water is his main theme. The expanse of sky, a green strip, shining surface of water are a certain scheme repeated in almost all compositions. The author processes, transforms such a structure. These are peculiar variations on a given topic. The composition is unchanged, but it is always a different landscape, a different area, a different place. Colour is important. It builds the atmosphere and mood of each work. With a spot of colour, the author brings out shapes, defines the space, suggests light. He uses a specific colour, based mostly on shades of blue and green. Color tone is always cool, sometimes only enriched with yellows, small patches of cinnabar and red.
Miłosz Matwijewicz creates mainly realistic compositions where details are not important. The aura of the momoent is essential. He simplifies shapes in favour of patches of colours, but often loses them, shaping the image space in an abstract way.
The presented works were created in the years 1980 to 2000. The artist still paints, but wuth great difficulty. Progressing eye disease does not allow him to work hard.
Elżbieta Kantorek

Miłosz Matwijewicz, born on October 27th, 1930, in Leszno. In 1949-1955, studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, under the tuition of Professor Stanisław Borysowski and Professor Tymon Niesiołowski. Since 1955, a member of the Association of Polish Artists. He is a painter. He also did functional art. He was a teacher. He has participated in many regional and national exhibitions and exhibitions of Polish art abroad. The author of eight individual exhibitions. His works are in the collections of the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, the Museum in Włocławek, Municipal Gallery bwa in Bydgoszcz, in private collections and on the m/s Bydgoszcz ship. Honoured with the Gold Cross of Merit, the Medal of the Commission of National Education and the Medal of the President of the City of Bydgoszcz.

Opening of the exhibition: May 20, 2011, 6pm
Exhibition open until 17.06.2011.