Jacek Krenz paints watercolour landscapes and portraits. He has combined careers both in arts and architecture as a professor of architecture at the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland and Universidade da Beira Interior Covilha, Portugal Member of the Polish Watercolor Society....the fascinating thing about watercolour painting is the search for balance between the intention of the artist and the alchemy of the process when paint is touching the paper. To explore this alchemy and experience the thrill of unexpected results is what I like most about painting. It is only me and the brush, water and colours to negotiate with the nature of reality and the nature of the mind.Exhibitions:Arte e Gnero. Palcio do Governo Civil, Castelo Branco, Portugal 2010Exposio Solidria. Casino de Lisboa, Portugal 2009ARTE ALGARVE. Expo Pavilion, Loul, Portugal 2009 BETWEEN.... Artistas Polacos em Portugal. Museo of Faro, Portugal 2009Os Grandes Mestres do Naturalismo na Pintura Occidental. Arts & Wines Gallery Covilh, Portugal 2009MEDITERAN 2008. Palaca Milesi, Split, Croatia 2008MEDITERAN 2008. City Museum, Trogir, Croatia 2008Entre Lisboa e Varsvia, Centro Comercial e Cultural Espao Chiado, Portugal 2007trio dos Paos do Concelho Cmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide, Portugal 2007Galeria Municipal Lagar de Azeite, Oeiras, Portugal 2007Old Market House Arts Centre in Dungarvan, Ireland 2006 Museu de Lanifcios in Covilh, Portugal 2006Royal Watercolour Societys Bankside Gallery in London 2005 and 2006 Labyrinth Gallery in Krakw, Poland 2005Farum Kulturhus, Denmark 2005 Municipal Gallery in Leba, Poland 2004, 2005Municipal Gallery in Dignano (Vodnjan), Croatia 2001Union of Polish Architects, Gdansk, Poland 1988The Netherlands: TU Delft Faculty of Architecture 1987 Rotterdam Town Hall 1986 Haarlem Town Hall 1985 Haarlem Cultural Center 1984__________________________________________________Jacek Krenz, professor of architecture, has painted watercolours for over 20 years. He not only devotes himself to this passion, but also encourages others to follow in his footsteps. Thanks to him, every year a number of his friends spend time together in the open air with brushes and paints in their hands, ready to paint. The Watercolours of Jacek Krenz are not impersonal photographical renderings of a subject, but a commentary confirming his ability to get deeply in touch with the beauty of things. His smaller size watercolours are especially charming, often composed of a few brisk touches of wet brush, as if put purely accidentally to paper. On the contrary, his technique is very advanced indeed, despite his claims for spontaneity as his artistic credo. It is obvious that as an artist he knows much about the detail of this specific technique and has managed to build his wide knowledge on years of experience.Apart from freely flowing patches of well balanced and cleverly combined contradictory colours, he uses with equal fluency other techniques, like rhythmical repetitions of quick touches of brush or wet-in / wet-out of colour. He knows well how to use a half-dry brush or how to mix and combine several of those techniques resulting in unexpected experiments where watercolour paint acquires intensity and diversity of expression. His watercolours attract attention with their dynamics, courage and great sensitivity, each and everyone being a sign of his openness towards the outside world, reflecting an imposing versatility of this talented artist and architect, as well as revealing a sensitive man.Czeslaw TumielewiczProfessor of Gdask Academy of Fine Art, Poland
