KINGA O. LEGG PAINTINGS

Kinga O.Legg is a Polish born artist. She spent her childhood and school years in the area of Cracow, Poland. From 1977 to 1983 she studied at the School of Architecture of Polytechnic Institute in Cracow, Poland. After graduating with M.A in Architecture she worked for several architectural firms in Cracow. For past 25 years she has resided with her family in the USA, where she is a CEO of her privately owned and founded architectural firm.

In adition to architecture, her true passion for years has been painting. While attending university, she deepened her interest with courses in painting, drawing , sculpture, and photography. She mastered her painting techniques under the eye of internationally acclaimed artist painter Wojciech Dlugosz.

The subject of most paintings by Kinga O.Legg is landscape with some exceptions of portraits and still life. Paintings depict the unsurpassed beauty of landscape of our planet, bringing relaxation to the viewer. The landscape changes not only with the seasons but also with the time of the day and instantaneous light effects and saturation. The focus of most paintings is not only the image of water but the upside-down reflections of the surrounding space on its surface. The pictorial reflection is a reacher subject when disconnected from its casual source and a single monochrome plane becomes an exhaustible field of all variations and shadows. Often, the ostensible subject matter (landscape) is cropped and reduced to the scale of still-life, as in serial "water lilies". The pond's surface acts as the background for bouquets of water lilies arranged on it. Fascination of the "moment" and mirror-like water reflections are more visible in her paintings after visiting Giverny, France, the house and garden of famous Claude Monet. Giverny gardens are the inspiration of numerous paintings created after 2000.

Most of the works of Kinga O.Legg are oils on canvas with the exception of some water colors from earlier years. Her paintings are in private collections in the USA and abroad. Kinga showed her works in some Chicago area galleries. Her paintings were exhibited abroad including  the individual exhibit of her 40 paintings in June/July 2008 in the Museum, XV- century Castle, in Wieliczka, Poland. "In Search of Paradise" was the title of another individual exhibit in Chicago in 2011 hosted by Society for Arts. She also exhibited her works with the other artists in the Polish Museum in Chicago and in serial of exhibits "Art for Heart".