Visual Strolls

seasonal residency

Visual Strolls is a residency space for artists who share an affinity for landscapes and wilderness, inner and outer. Foresta is changing with every season as the real forest does. In cyclical circularity it celebrates changing seasons of nature and of our lives. As snow melts away, as days grow longer, as leaves change colour, as they fly with the wind, as stillness settles in, as warmth returns, as birds cross continents — at the turn of each seasonal moment we invite a different artist to bring a new time of the year to Foresta by creating a portrait of time that later becomes part of the permanent Museum of Seasons.

The author of the winter seasonal portrait in 2017/2018 is Karolina Skórka. Karolina is an artist and illustrator from Poland. We are captivated by simplicity, delicacy, and nostalgic mood of her work. Join us in taking a meditative stroll through a selection of Karolina’s works in the gallery below. 

Winter 2017/2018 Portrait

"Until the age of 10 I lived near a beautiful forest, where I spent every spare moment, sometimes with friends and family but mostly alone sitting on a great oak (now as an adult I know that I was meditating...).  The forest that I left almost 30 years ago is still a part of me, gives me a sense of peace and security now when I live in a big city. This experience deeply influenced my passion for simplicity, for sense of solitude in my art, and attraction to small things in life that many people overlook." 

About Visual Strolls

Visual Strolls is not only an online gallery, an exhibition room, a portrait into the work of the invited artist. It is also a part of our long-term research, understanding arts and creativity as forces that change human states of attention in manifold ways, as forms of cognition and perception, divergent perspectives and poetry of vision, access to intuition and imagination, and empowerment for conscious creation of culture. You can read more about Art into Life research here.

Cover image: Karolina Skórka