Every sculpture, painting, or piece of driftwood tells a story.
Please, browse through the selection of my favorites creations hailing from different continents
and times of my life.
Welcome to my world of shapes, colors and textures
I am Ania Modzelewski. Each of the images you will see here relates to some
private emotion that touched me in the long and winded journey to Hawaii.
Very early, when I was a small kid, I found out that the best way to make sense of the confusing
world around me was through playing with gnarled roots, and blobs of paint smeared on paper.
The fantastic shapes and colors explained what words could not.
Quite a few decades passed. I lived in many places in Europe, Africa, and North America until
I have settled in Hawaii. But, not much changed.
I still see the world, and I process my emotions, through the language of art.
Wherever I made my home, my art studio was arranged before the kitchen table found its proper
place. Without that place of thinking, feeling and creating, I would be lost.
Hawaii overwhelms senses with its richness and beauty. The power of the ocean surf, the
fantastic plants which seem to belong to a children book, the beautiful bodies on the beach…
This almost surrealistic world surging just outside my workshop’s window is hard to absorb and
process. And then, when the mental work has been done, I need clay, bronze, driftwood, oils,
pixels… I need all these media to give justice to the emotions brewing in my head.
I hope to connect with people who have a similar need to perceive the reality through art, grasp
the invisible connections, name the emotions, and see the deeper meaning in regular, everyday
objects. Whether you are a fellow artist, a collector or just a curious person, let’s talk, because
Art is dead when not shared.
Explore my work through three main collections
The ocean surf, the plants seemingly coming from a children book, the beautiful bodies on the
beach… life in Hawai’i over saturates one’s senses. I would like to share with you the vibrant
colors, the psychotic pallet of light and shade, the ballet of figures appearing in this
hyperrealistic ambience just outside my studio.
Is it just my imagination? Or you can see it as well?
Let me know, I would love to know what you see in my paintings and sculptures!