Artist Statement
“My abstract figurative paintings capture the essence of women as both sensual beings and powerful individuals. I create to inspire women to embrace their femininity with confidence, edge and elegance."
Grace is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans figurative painting, photography, and visual storytelling. Her work explores the female form with sophistication and edge, presenting women not as symbols but as complex presences shaped by resilience. Through abstraction and gesture, her paintings balance intimacy with restraint, inviting viewers into moments that feel both contemporary and timeless.
Grace builds her figurative compositions through layered brushwork, charcoal, and occasional metallic elements. These materials introduce texture and luminosity while allowing the figure to emerge and dissolve simultaneously. Photography plays a foundational role in her practice. Grace often begins with images captured in her studio or during travel, responding to a specific pose, gesture, or the way light and shadow move across the body. As the work evolves on canvas, the original reference becomes a point of departure rather than a fixed destination, at times allowing the paint to guide her as it glides and seeps into linen canvas.
Living a life in art began with Grace’s childhood in Krakow, Poland. Using elements of nature, and items found around the home, she would make a cardboard dollhouse, floral head wreaths and draw in chalk doll-like figures on the outside building walls of her family’s rental apartment.
Over the years, Grace has exhibited in both group and solo art shows, collaborated with local businesses, national retailers, interior designers, curators and has had her work featured in showcase houses, advertorial campaigns, and on NETFLIX and HGTV.
Her work has been seen showcase homes, Chicago's River North Art Walk and has collaborated with businesses.
Grace promotes her lifestyle message through her brand LYLIA (acronym for Live Your Life In Art), through her other passions; interior design, wellness and fashion. Her painted vintage books and merchandise are an extension of her creativity.