Having recently began painting after a 15 year break (minus a couple other recent paintings) I was pretty anxious to start. It took me about two years to build up the courage. I was afraid that maybe I wouldn’t be able to make anything look like what I imagined. After the initial dipping of the ...
Summer at Slate River,framed stained glass mosaic, 24″ x 24″, 2020 ~SOLD This is the view from one of my most frequented and favorite dispersed campsites in Crested Butte along the beautiful Slate River Road. Below is one of the photos I took while camping out there in July of one of the recent years. ...
This painting of a sunset at Little Molas Lake near Silverton, Colorado. Over the years, I have spent many beautiful days and nights camping andhiking in this special, remote part of Colorado.
Alpenglow Over Hallett Peak and Flattop Mountain ~SOLD acrylic painting on board finished in gloss varnish, 35″x35″, 2020 See Other Available Work: https://www.kasiapolkowskashop.com This painting is of the view from the Emerald Lake Hike in the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. The scene is one of my favorites in the park. It is ...
Until this trip, I’ve never seen any geothermal activity in person. I was completely awestruck. The colors, the textures, the patterns, the smells – it all intrigued me. Throw that among the pristine Yellowstone landscape where bison, grizzlies, wolves and many more animals roam – and I felt
like I was in a fairy tale. I was so giddy because I finally made it to America’s Park – a dream come true that exceeded my expectations.
Does this mosaic bring you back to an alpine lake you’ve hiked up to? It brings me back to the countless mountain lake hikes I’ve been lucky enough to treck up to in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado where I live. These memories span far beyond to Wyoming, Utah, Montana and Idaho where I’ve gone on adventurous ...
This is the view is what I get to enjoy everyday on my evening walks. I particularly love the imagery when the mountains have a bright, white snow-pack that is illuminated with the setting sun.
Sangres at Dusk, a stained glass mosaic, 29″x26″, 2019 Available for Sale: Kasia’s Online Art Shop This is my latest landscape depicting the Sangre De Cristo Mountains, an unbelievable backdrop in the high dessert valley where I live in Southern Colorado I see these every where I go as they loom above me, with peaks over 14,000 and 13,000ft. ...
This landscape is inspired by an amazing backpacking trip in the Maroon Bells Wilderness back in 2013. The Four Pass Loop starts and finishes at this location. It is incredible! You know if you’ve been here.
This bear is s a metaphor that shows the reality and the danger of forest fires which the Mountain West faces every summer. The wildlife lives in that fragile landscape and has to find their way out when they are faced with the flames and the smoke of their habitat burning away.