GOSIA MAGREL (PROFILE)

Gosia Magrel, 
collage-based painting No 1, 2020, 
21 x 29.7 cm / 8.27 x 1.69 inches
Gosia Magrel, 
collage-based painting No 2, 2021, 
21 x 29.7 cm / 8.27 x 11.69 inches
Gosia Magrel, 
collage-based painting No 3, 2023, 
 14.8 x 21 cm / 5.8 x 8.3 inches
Gosia Magrel, 
collage-based painting No 4, 2024, 
21 x 29.7 cm /  8.27 x 11.69 inches
Gosia Magrel, 
collage-based painting No 5, 2024, 
 14.8 x 21 cm / 5.8 x 8.3 inches .
Gosia Magrel, 
collage-based painting No 6, 2025, 
21 x 29.7 cm / 8.27 x 11.69 inches
Gosia Magrel

Polish abstract painter based in Edinburgh, UK

gosiamagrel@gmail.com
Instagram: gosia_magrel


Education
The Eugeniusz Geppert Acadamy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland
postgraduate diploma 2006

Solo Shows
The Eugeniusz Geppert Acadamy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland
2005, Collage

Group Shows
The Polish Theatre in Wrocław,
2006, Oil paintings

ARt Gallery Pod strychem, Bytom
2006, Stained glass design

VAS Biennial Exhibition, Edinburgh
2025, collage-based painting I paint colours. I have reduced painting to its very essence — and for me, that essence is colour itself. In my work, colour is not merely a visual element, but the subject in its own right. I explore mental, imagined, and remembered colours: hues that carry emotional and spiritual weight, colours recalled from nature, and those drawn from the history of painting, particularly the symbolic, coded colours of the Middle Ages. I translate these visions into physical form through a meticulous collage technique. My work references the traditions of oil painting, but instead of pigment, I use precisely cut, single-colour fragments from printed magazines, arranging them like brushstrokes into rhythmic fields of light, interwoven with variations in colour temperature and saturation. Each small, uniform fragment – a “scale” of approx. 1.3 cm – is chosen and placed in relation to its neighbouring pieces, creating a balanced yet dynamic composition. Through this slow, deliberate process, I reveal the mental colour — once visible only in the mind — as a tangible, physical painting.
I am currently developing a cycle of works devoted to the study of colour as a mental and metaphysical phenomenon, and I am open to collaboration with galleries, curators and collectors.



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