danielle fontaine koslowsky
Danielle Fontaine Koslowsky is a Franco-Manitoban visual artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada working and living on Treaty 1 Territory. Danielle currently paints and sculpts in her studio at 618 ARTlington, and serves on the MHC Gallery advisory board. You can find her works in the Canadian Mennonite University and in private collections across the US and Canada.
Her body of work explores the nebulous subject of interior life. Her practice, rooted in the contemplative path and the study of the mystics, explores her own inner landscape; a fractal of the human experience. Her work, like a mirror, reflects back to the self, its journey inwards towards the center.
She uses painting as a medium through which to make the invisible, visible. Colour, mark, texture, line and form give expression to ideas, paradoxes and concepts where language fails. Through abstraction, disorder gives way to order and invites the viewer towards new perceptions and insights. By surrendering to the creative process, her artistic discipline allows her to be used as a vessel guided by the work. This intuitive approach enables her to circumvent the intellect in order to access a naked intent towards the true self, coaxing the viewer on their own journey into the interior life.