"My painting is terribly autobiographical – Beata
admits – I always process my world into what is in the eye. In
order to paint I need to feel, I don’t take up something that hasn’t
been processed by emotions. These mountains are really mine.
I’ve been spending a lot of in the mountains since I was a child.
They’ve always hugely fascinated me – but, on the other hand,
instilled a terrible fear, because everything can happen… That’s
why the mountains are so extraordinary for me. They are a place
with absolutely extreme emotions… Because behind them there
are emotions and experiences. The fact alone that I took all these
works out of me in less than three months… And I would take
them out all ready! None of them was based on photographs, these are the mountains taken out of me, really! Our subconscious
records a great deal of information, though… For me it’s a kind
of settlement with the mountains, but also – I don’t know – maybe a homage to them, a desire to pay respect to their immense
strength. That’s how I see them, as a locus of power. In a way, it’s
a return to the roots." - text from the exhibition cathalog "the day before...store about the montain"