Title : Amaretto Stone Sour⁠

Medium : Acrylic on gesso board ⁠

Description:⁠ Photorealistic still life painting of an Amaretto Stone Sour cocktail in a lowball glass with candied orange and cherry garnishes, accompanied by bottles of simple syrup and amaretto, a jar of candied oranges, and lemons, all on a wooden serving board.⁠

Title : 7 Years⁠

Medium : Mixed Media (analogic collage and gold leaf on wood board)⁠

Description:⁠ This piece was made to honour the seven years of the most important relationship of my life. The eye represents the spiritual awakening that came from that journey but also the co-dependency and attachment between the two souls at that time.⁠

Title : Couch Potato⁠

Medium : Photography ⁠

Description:⁠ How bad did things get for you during the lockdowns?⁠

Title : Wet Dog Shaking

Medium : Mixed Media ⁠

Description:⁠ 'Wet Dog Shaking' captures the spray of water as the sunlight bounces off a wet dog while he shakes his coat. So many small⁠ pieces of paper have gone into this artwork to show this movement.⁠

Title : Delirium

Medium : Sculpture

Description:⁠ Wall installation, 50”x50”x5”, 2022

Title : Serene

Medium : Oil & Mixed Media ⁠

Description:⁠ The painting explores the relationship and love between two men from different backgrounds and cultures. The artist takes inspiration from people living in her neighborhood. A young couple and her friends shared their intimate moment where they relaxed and enjoyed their own company. Through the composition and vibrancy of the colors, Pilarczyk captures a burst of love and fascination within each other and shared trust between both men. Joanna explores diversity within relationships. 'Serene' shows a gay couple, a young Brazilian and an English man representing the gay community.

In the 'My Paradise' series, the artist also explores leisure, time of meditation, and stillness when her subjects are simply being, without any responsibility.

Title : Deconstructing A Kiwi

Medium : Photography ⁠

Description:⁠ HO scale (1:87) figures deconstructing a kiwi into its individual components.

Title : Manufactured Democracy

Medium : Sculpture

Description:⁠ Manufactured Democracy is an art installation with more than 20 lightboxes, each 24 x 24 inches. On each lightbox, a piece of paper covers the light. In the shape of a Fingerprint, with an average size of 16 x 8 inches, I handwrite in Arabic calligraphy the names of Iraqi individuals who lost their lives in civil wars in Iraq since 2003

Title : When Gnomes Need to Clean Their Homes

Medium : Sculpture ⁠

Description:⁠ When Gnomes Need to Clean Their Homes is a nomadic installation that reminds people of the environmental problem of pollution caused by overconsumption and disregard for the environment. The mysterious litter-picking garden gnomes that I’ve created from repurposed materials pop-up randomly in public areas to clean up the streets and then they disappear. While each has a unique personality and posture, they are all activists, janitors, volunteers, and immigrants. No one knows where these mini-environmentalists come from and go to, but they leave the land clean for us.

Title : Reflexion

Medium : Archival pigment print on canvas, thread ⁠

Description:⁠ 32 1/2 inch x 23 inch, created on December, 2021

Title : Follow the Sun

Medium : Heavy Body Acrylics

Description:⁠ Rolling hills of yellow sunflowers lead your eye to the horizon. The flowing fields of yellow and orange petals are interrupted by the green silhouettes of distant trees. Above, ethereal looking clouds mingle with the wind, softly spinning and sharing sunlight with the field below. This piece affords the viewer a distant vantage point, peering over the seemingly endless sunflower fields. As the larger flowers fade into dappled forms, the petals appear to create a lush blanket of yellow and orange.

Title : Saguaro Garden

Medium : Sculpture ⁠

Description:⁠ This glass and brass garden terrarium is One-Of- A-Kind maybe free standing or hanging. The colors and textures are inspired by the intriguing Southwest Sonoran Desert. The enclosed miniature garden is created with handmade torch work glass beads in my Scottsdale Studio with a dual fuel, oxygen/propane torch and kiln annealed for 5 hours to stabilize the glass. The handmade beads are secured to a base in the terrarium and ground glass Frit and real pebbles are sprinkled around the base. Measures: 6in X 6in X 9in.

Title : Floral Mermaid

Medium : Painting

Description:⁠ I decided to channel and interpret many of the large personalities, and intense bright colors of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade in New York into a body of work. It was important to portray a diverse series of women and female-presenting people in the parade. I wanted to explore their divergent emotions projecting power, strength, vulnerability, joy, gay pride, and women's power in multiple ways.

Title : Child

Medium : Photography

Title : Ehecatl

Medium : Wire Sculpture ⁠

Description:⁠ Ehecatl is a work , which has evolved a long time to its final form. It is my tribute to the legacy that ancient cultures have left us. It symbolizes the persistence of the human species in the face of an ever-changing environment. Today we ourselves are destroying this environment, but nevertheless, even when civilization collapses, the human species survives and once again rebounds and adapts.

Title : Inhabitants

Medium : Photography

Description:⁠ Taken at the Dead Sea, in exploration of textures and shapes.

Title : Emergence

Medium : Oil on Canvas

Description : This is a painting that I completed before during the 2020 lockdowns. I was inspired by the vitality of my model pulling from the water, the the stretching drag of her hair in the water. The sense of urgency and dynamism of the movement was particularly appealing during the stagnant period of the UK lockdowns.

Title : Snow 2

Medium : Oil on Canvas ⁠

Title : Made in China

Medium : Acrylic on Linen

Description:⁠ China is a manufacturing powerhouse, and its electric toys are popular

Title : Assimilation

Medium : Sculpture

Description : “Assimilation” captures the negative impact that media consumption can have on an individual, by literally being overtaken by it.

Title : Impredecible

Medium : Charcoal & Pastel on Paper ⁠

Description :Baseball is more than a sport for many passionate fans around the world. it goes beyond statistics and result on the field of play, and becomes an expression of identity, culture and pride. in Dominican baseball history Pedro Martinez is one of the most prominent names and a drawing inspire by him not only captures his skill on the mound, but also his impact beyond baseball.

Title : Why Do We Have To Disappear

Medium : Oil on Linen Canvas

Description:⁠ Why Do We Have to Disappear? is one of a series of paintings focusing on the female physical body and the scrutiny to which it is commonly subjected. Presenting Ruby with a painted face and wearing a clown costume, this painting considers our natural inclination to disguise ourselves, and to present the person we believe society will accept rather than the person that we really are.

Title : Damaged Goods

Medium : Charcoal

Description : This 5 x 6 feet meticulously drawn charcoal portrait glorifies the subject’s facial acne scars and slouch posture as attributes that are often mistaken as flaws within the beauty standards of today.

Title : Resilience

Medium : Stoneware ⁠

Description :This piece was sculpted during a two day session with a live model. It was made with water based clay, hollowed out, and then fired. In the kiln, the piece cracked, broke, and fell apart. It was carefully put back together using the Kintsugi technique and painted. Once the piece was mounted onto the marble based it earned the title, “Resilience”.

Title : Still Blue Sparkle

Medium : Acrylic on Canvas

Description:⁠ I believe that personal items have the ability to capture the essence of an individual, and even act as tangible connections to the past. They can represent “pieces” of someone’s overall life, containing stories that are linked to their identity, personal history, and deeply emotional experiences. I wanted the subject matter in this painting to “stand in” as symbolic fragments of my personality, personal timeline, and navigation through life while dealing with mental illness. I usually include items that are reminiscent of positive memories and representative of therapeutic self-expression, but with an element of melancholy.

For example, the scarf here is one (of several items) that I crocheted myself during a very painful period of my life, and the hat and earrings are some of many that I've collected and worn over the years. These little things have helped to pull me just a bit further out of the darkness enveloping me. The small details rendered here represent how I interact with the environment in my daily life. I observe things very closely and try to appreciate the seemingly trivial details that come together to make up the whole (such as the stitches on a scarf or a little souvenir from a special trip). Each keepsake acts as a palpable existence of my past, helping me create a mental timeline of where and who I've been, what I’ve done, and how far I've come while enduring hardship.

Title : Visitor on a Green Velvet Chair

Medium : Oil

Description : This is a piece that is personal to me. This painting is of my youngest brother sitting in my own living room on a winter night. This is one of many times we have stayed up late into the night talking about everything big and small. We come from a large family of 7 children. This particular sibling is 14 years younger than I am so we are in very different places in our lives, so many of our conversations revolve around his own dreams for the future and his fears that he may be falling short. What I love about this moment is that it is a scene that has played out since the beginning of time; a young restless man driven to find a name for himself while also addressing the insecurities that adulthood brings.

Title : Freedom

Medium : Pencil on Special Paper ⁠

Description :"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" (Jean-Jacques Rousseau).

Sometimes, the real chains are the ones we create for ourselves. Those who block us and do not allow us to express our ambitions, our dreams....

The hair in my self portrait drawing represents the expression of my artistic voice that broke out anew...

The hair is a symbol of breaking the boundaries of the self.... My passion for painting has existed since I was a little girl. I continued to paint in the arts' high school where I studied, and later also in my academic studies, but then I "imprisoned" it inside me for years.... until I gave it free rein, and allowed it to break out again...

Title : Clymdych

Medium : Ceramic Sculpture

Description:⁠ Clymdych is a ceramic sculpture constructed from multiple elements which have been tied around a single metal armature. The painted components interlock and crumple the spaces between each one, as they jostle across the space. The clay elements dance up and along the armature, a collection of complex clay forms, warped, folded and squeezed. They nestle together, pulled tight in against each other by thin wire. The fluid movement of the clay is restrained and made still by wrapping and cocooning that particular instant. The wire is taut against the organic and more fluid clay, encasing the individual elements and compressing the space between them as it pulls the pieces together. Each unique piece of clay is brought alongside its neighbours, jostling for position and both cradled against each other, held in place by the binding but still wanting to break free from the constraints. The bindings play a dual role indicating a direction and development of movement as well as containing the movement within. The individually complex pieces combine to create an intricate sculpture.

Title : Textile Rabbits

Medium : Mixed Media

Description : Textile Rabbits is an introspective observation on the overproduction of textile waste. Through the use of recycled textile materials, this piece use the symbolism of rabbits to signify the “overpopulation” of textiles in our ecosystems. Reflective of the phrase, “breed like rabbits”, textiles are mass produced at a rate in which the earth can not compete, leaving pristine landscapes barren and exhausted from excessive production. This piece portrays a various environment that has become devoured by textile pollution. The juxtaposing imagery, color and stylization express how the textile industry fabricates and camouflages its destructive nature, concealing the truth about textiles through fast fashion trends and cheap mass production. Textile Rabbits asks its audience to reflect on their own accountability with textile waste. Ed. 5 is made on a 60H x 48W cloth canvas with spray paint, acrylic, marker and recycled linen fabric.

Title : Conformation

Medium : Acrylics with Modelling Paste on Canvas ⁠

Description :

CONFORMATION is a non-objective piece playing with tumbling geometric forms. The word conformation used as the title of this piece refers to structure, and in chemistry "any of the spatial arrangements of a molecule that can be obtained by rotation of the atoms about a single bond." CONFORMATION is acrylics with modeling paste building texture on canvas. It is 36" x 36" x 1.5".

Title : Prelude To A Symphony

Medium : Oil on Canvas

Description:⁠ A bottel of Jean-paul Gauthier parfume that was on my desk since a few years .

I use a stripe paper for background to remind the sailor stipe shirt that he often wear.

Title : Euphonium player

Medium : Carbone and Pierre Noire on drawing cardboard

Title : Zebra’s Gaze

Medium : Pencil

Description :

Latest coloured pencil drawing drawn with Caran d’Ache Luminance on Arches Aquarelle hot pressed paper.

Title : Avalon Was Home

Medium : Scratchboard

Description : When we see a baby animal or species like an adorable koala, we are immediately captivated by its sweetness and vulnerability. That is what I aimed to highlight in this piece. Vulnerability is something that every sentient being is born with and inspires our instinct to protect them and keep them safe from harm. Now, more than ever, this unassailable quality in our iconic koala needs to be protected and honoured as it goes unnoticed and overlooked by government officials and developers, hell-bent on economic growth and vested interests rather than saving valuable koala habitat.

Before colonization, the koala population was abundant on Sydney's northern beaches where I live. The last koalas lived in Avalon. They completely disappeared by 1989.

Title : Celine’s Dream

Medium : Watercolor

Description:⁠ This is a triptych 3 x 56x76cm so as a whole : 168x76cm

Title : Amulet

Medium : Oil on Canvas

Description :

Humanity often turns to nature for assistance, seeking and finding symbols within it. Poppies are one of the most widespread symbols, not only in Ukraine but worldwide. They symbolize the sun, freedom, beauty, wealth, pride, and memory. What resonates more with your soul?

Multilayer painting: the bottom underpainting is an abstract cadmium composition. The upper layers create the background and the composition that emerges as a result of wiping the lower layer."

Title : Lost

Medium : Photography

Description : This is part of a series I titled "Womens Series", simple but conveys the message. It's 3 pieces centered around women's experiences with self- reflections and self-concept surrounding domestic violence that exists in their lives. Lost is looking to evoke the sense of hopelessness and shattered identity when someone you trust betrays you.

Title : Town Reflection

Medium : Acrylic on archival paper, matted and framed

Title : Exile

Medium : Photography

Description :

I remember laying in bed for hours, sometimes up to five, just thinking of any and everything. Playing over details of the prior day, constructing illusional scenarios of the future, or just doubting myself in every way. I was a prisoner within my own mind, sinking further and further into the depths of uncertainty.

And that’s what was scary: I was drowning in plain sight.

Title : Distinguished Gentleman, part of ‘Clandestine Queers, hidden in plain sight’ series.

Medium : Oil on Canvas

Title : My Brazil

Medium : Acrylic & Oil on Canvas

Description : 'My Brazil' painting explores the relationship and love between two men from different backgrounds and cultures. The artist takes inspiration from people living in her neighbourhood. A young gay couple, Brazil-born Renato and a British man, Alex, are both creatives residing in London. They share an intimate moment and a conversation with Pilarczyk about their relationship and the past. Renato, who grew up in Brazil, shared with the artist his memories of a beautiful but dangerous country where he didn't feel safe as a young gay man. Although he misses his family house with a yard full of trees and colourful toucans, Renato has found support, trust and a safe place in his relationship with Alex and within the art community in North London.

As the artist, I'm thrilled to share this vibrant expression of life and connection. I've blended acrylic and oil to capture a moment steeped in the warmth of companionship, framed by the lush, dynamic backdrop reminiscent of nature's embrace. My brushstrokes create a symphony of vivid colours and textures, intertwining figures with their environment in a dance of impressionistic and pop art styles. It is a visual narrative of diversity, intimacy and interrelation, inviting the viewer into a world where the essence of shared experiences blooms with each gaze.

Title : Generational Trust

Medium : Digital Photography

Description :

While I was in the village of Dassanech in western Ethiopia, I witnessed a child guiding an elderly man towards the village. As I approached them, I noticed the man's visual impairment and observed the child assisting him to return home. When the man became startled upon hearing my approach due to his inability to see me, I endeavored to reassure them both and took some photographs to capture the moment.

Title : All on a Summer’s Day

Medium : Oil on Lead Primed Panel

Description :

The Queen of Hearts

She made some tarts

All on a Summer’s Day...

Inspired by Waterhouse’s painting “Cleopatra” this painting celebrates the Queen of Hearts and her moment of quiet contemplation - “Who Stole My Tarts?” The colour red was the inspiration for this painting's colour story - red being a colour of not only power but also intense emotions like rage. This intense and thoughtful moment of sweet vengeance is captured in red, white and black with accents of royal green and gold. The thick impastoed lead white is layered in the portrait with expressive brushwork to create subtle textures in the Queen’s expression. This portrait was started from life and completed in the studio. This is one of many paintings in the artist’s autobiographical series entitled “Alex in Wonderland”.

Title : Mask of the Red Death (Phantom of the opera)

Medium : Acrylic on Canvas

Title : Bacchus

Medium : Oil, glass beads, red jasper, amethyst, acrylic