Henryk Szydlowski
272 Parnell Road Parnell Auckland +64 +9 366 6045 www.internationalartcentre.co.nz
Henryk Szydlowski Szydlowski creates a whimsical world inhabited by
He casts his spell by employing a vocabulary of
round birds, striped trees and puppet-like people;
personal symbols that are easily translated as
a place where flights of fancy take us into a
they refer to universal concepts. The bird
delighted realm of rich colour and shimmering
represents a sense of freedom, a single tree
glazes. The artist sets the stage and directs his
suggests the broader landscape, while the
characters on it then allows the viewer to interpret
puppet-like figures are whoever we, the viewers,
the action. Each painting is constructed in layers
want them to be. These motifs, together with fine
that compose a story; one that develops while
black lines, gold and silver leaf, are arranged in
the image evolves. We are invited to discover the
harmony with vivid hues, and held secure by the
artist’s narrative or invent our own. Meanwhile
balanced design of composition.
poetic titles provide a point of entry to the fantasy and guide us through the painting.
Szydlowski is well aware that good art will communicate across barriers of time and culture.
The charm of his work cannot disguise Szydlowski’s
He is a painter who comes to his canvas with a
excellent, considered command of composition
desire to make something beautiful. He is an
and technique, the core of his signature style. The
artist who has no interest in competing with
artist combines a respect for his cultural heritage
contemporaries, preferring instead to set his own
with an understanding of classical drawing and
goals. He is an individual who believes that if
selected aspects of modern art to produce a
current dictates of art prevent him from making
fantastic place and space where everyone is
paintings people can enjoy, he will ignore them.
welcome to enter and help make the magic.
After all, rules change but good art is constant. Judith McGrath - Melbourne
Front cover: Story of the Flying Carpet
Oil on canvas
90 x 120 cm
$22,500
Colourful House in the Green Village
Oil on canvas
60 x 75 cm
$12,500
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Farmers of the Colourful Flower Oil on canvas 120 x 90 cm $22,500
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Portrait in Red
Oil on canvas
75 x 60 cm
$12,500
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Night in the Red Hot City
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Oil on canvas
90 x 120 cm
$22,500
Night in the Red Hill
Oil on canvas
60 x 75 cm
$12,500
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Moonlight House 6
Oil on canvas
75 x 60 cm
$12,500
Blue Night in the Red Hills
Oil on canvas
60 x 75 cm
$12,500
“Blue, the colour of both a fathomless midnight sky and the illuminating dawn. Blue, the perfect backdrop for my red hills and those that shelter and play beneath them.� 7
Silver Night in the Red House
Oil on canvas
60 x 75 cm
$12,500
“My red house is set in a world of fantasy surrealism. A multicoloured keyline, doors, windows and my symbol of New Zealand’s native ponga tree all flourish and thrive under the spell of a silver night.”
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Story of the Flying Carpet
Oil on canvas
90 x 120 cm
$22,500
“Paintings are the door to my dreams, my colourful, energetic, imaginary world. A world of visual narrative which invites the viewer to join the fantasy.�
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Farmer of the White Flower
Oil on canvas
60 x 75 cm
$12,500
“On a field of green the symbols of my imagination dance. The white flower, from which my painting takes its title is counter-balanced by a floating triangle of gold and red. The flower created by nature, the pyramid by man, flow from my brush to the canvas.�
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Farmer of the Night Flower in the Yellow Hills
Oil on canvas
90 x 120 cm
$22,500
“My works are about my dreams; these dreams are represented by a visual poetry of composition, colour, shape and illusion. Together these components form a harmonised, never-ending visual theatre.�
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Spring in the Birds Hill
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Oil on canvas
60 x 75 cm
$12,500
Story of the Colourful Birds Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm $5,950
Night Stalkers in Blue Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm $5,950
Sunrise in the Valley Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm $5,950
Sunset Stalkers Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm
$5,950 13
Poetry of the Time Maker
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Oil on canvas
75 x 60 cm
$12,500
Farmers of the Yellow Bird
Oil on canvas
75 x 60 cm
$12,500
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Stalkers of the White Bird
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Oil on canvas
60 x 75 cm
$12,500
Dreamers from the Village in Red
Oil on canvas
65 x 80 cm
$12,950
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Solo Exhibitions 1977
Oils Euchamer Gallery, Poland
1978
Oils Muzeum Ziemi Olkuskiej Gallery, Olkusz, Poland Oils Gwarek Gallery, Olkusz, Poland Oils B.W.A. Gallery, Bytom, Poland Oils Association of Journalists Gallery, Poland
1985
Oils and manifest of “Credo� style R.K.S. Gallery Oils and Graphics John Leech Galleries, Auckland Graphics Seijoh Gallery, Sendai, Japan
1990 Graphics Seijoh Gallery, Sendai, Japan Graphics Crystal Gallery, Morioka City, Japan Oils Goodridge Galleries, Perth, Australia Oils John Leech Galleries, Auckland
1986 Oil and Graphics Prism Art Galleries, Fremantle, 1991 Oils Holdsworth Galleries, Australia Sydney, Australia Oils Charlotte H. Gallery, 1980 Graphics John Leech 1987 Oils and Graphics Auckland, New Zealand Galleries, Auckland, Alexander Galleries, Oils Chapman Gallery, Oils John Leech Galleries, Perth, Australia Canberra, Australia Auckland Oils Goodridge Galleries, 1988 Graphics and Oils Perth, Australia 1981 Graphics and Oils Holdsworth Settlement Gallery, Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1992 Oils John Leech Gallery, Wellington, Oils John Leech Galleries, Auckland Graphics Studio Gallery, Auckland, Oils Flinders Lane Gallery, Hamilton Graphics Seijoh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Graphics John Leech Sendai, Japan Galleries, Auckland Oils Charlotte H. Gallery 1993 Oils John Leech Gallery, Auckland 1982 Oils John Leech Galleries, 1989 Oils and Graphics Vincent Oils Holdsworth Galleries, Auckland, Graphics John Gallery, Adelaide, Australia Sydney, Australia. Leech Galleries, Auckland, Oils John Leech Gallery, Graphics Galeria Pod Zlotym Graphics and Oils Settlement Auckland Lewkiem, Krakow, Poland Gallery, Wellington Oils and Graphics Oils Dobson Bashford Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, Gallery, Christchurch 1982-83 Graphics Touring Exhibition, Australia Oils Chapman Gallery, Societies Oils, Graphics and Canberra, Australia Oils John Leech Galleries, Watercolours Oils Gomboc Gallery, Auckland Charlotte H. Gallery, Perth, Australia Graphics and Oils 1984 Oils Thornton Gallery, Goodridge Hamilton Gallery, Perth, Australia
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1994
Oils The Gallery of Fine Art, Perth, Australia Oils Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1995
Oils International Art Centre, Oils Delshan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Oils Dobson Bashford Gallery, Christchurch
2001 2002
Oils International Art Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand Oils Barry Stern Gallery,
2011 Oils Delshan Gallery, 2013 Melbourne, Australia
2003 Oils Stafford Studios of Fine Art, Cottesloe, Australia Oils International Art Centre, Wellington 1996 Oils Holdsworth Gallery, Oils International Art Centre, Sydney, Australia Auckland Oils Barry Stern Gallery, 1997 Oils Gaugin Gallery, Sydney, Australia Singapore Oils Barry Stern Gallery, 2004 Oils Delshan Gallery, Sydney, Australia Melbourne, Australia Oils Delshan Gallery, Oils Barry Stern Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Australia Oils International Art Centre, Auckland, New Zealand 2006 Oils Delshan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1998 Oils Barry Stern Gallery, Oils Stafford Studios of Fine Sydney, Australia Art, Cottesloe, Australia 1999 Oils Monarch Art Gallery, Singapore Oils Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney, Australia Oils Delshan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2000 Oils International Art Centre, Oils Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007
Oils Dobson Bashford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
2008
Oils Delshan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014
Oils Manyung at Glenferrie, Melbourne, Australia Oils Wentworth Galleries, Sydney, Australia Oils Wentworth Galleries, Sydney, Australia Oils Gallows Gallery, Mosman Park, Australia
2015 Oils International Art Centre, Auckland
2009 Oils International Art Centre, Auckland
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Time Line 1950
Born 23 of March, 1985 Lectured at Whitecliffe Art Jawor Poland 1985-90 Painted & exhibited in 1964-69 Attended High School Australia & overseas of Fine Arts, Jaroslaw- Poland. Lecturers 1989-93 Lectured at Claremont E. Kifferling, S. Kucia, School of Fine Arts, Perth W. Sliwinski, S. Stelmasik and I. Oryl 1990 Awarded membership of the Japanese Art Publishing 1969 Graduated from High Institute School of Fine Arts, awarded art prize 1996 Collection Stamp Release, Tribute paid by Who’s Who 1969-78 Attended Academy in International Art, of Fine Arts in Krakow, Lausanne, Switzerland Poland. Professors C. Rzepinski, A. Siwecki, 1998 Officially appointed the J. Kochanowski, and title of Professor S. Wojtyna. Henryk Szydlowski by the Awarded Master of Fine Arts Accademia Internazionale Degree. Painted & Greci Marino, Accademia exhibited in Poland Del Verbano, di Lettere, Arti, Scienze, Vercelli, Italy 1978-85 Painted & exhibited in New Zealand & overseas 1999 Featured in the 1999 Who’s Who in International Art 1982 Henryk Szydlowski “Great Names and developed a new printing Newcomers in 20th Century technique which he Art”. Membership of the Art named Polprint (Polish Print). Addiction International His technique gained Art Association, Stockholm, worldwide recognition by Sweden artists and critics
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2000 Awarded the highest title of Academical Official Knight by the Accademia Internazionale Greci Marino, Accademia Del Verbano, di Lettere, Arti, Scienze, Vercelli, Italy. Celebration de l’annee Stamp Release, ‘Artistes et Maitres’, Who’s Who in International Art, Lausanne, Switzerland 2003 World of Art Books published a book titled “Door to the Dreams” (Masters of Today Series) 2004 Continues to exhibit and sell internationally
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