“Perhaps the most treasured of all things to have
is freedom. Freedom to be oneself, to be
expressive and to be afforded the luxury of letting
go. Abstract artist Geraldine “Gerry” K.
Czajkowski wouldn’t have it any other way.”

Excerpted from a feature article about Czajkowski titled “Art
From the Soul” by Tara Tobias Fair, The Sunday Star Democrat
August 18, 2002

Moved by nature’s organic abstractions, Czajkowski paints from her soul, for her soul, feeling the peace, beauty, spontaneity and emotionality of the universe. Her works explore shifting color, visual harmony and poetic expression in her interpretations of nature.

“I love not knowing the ending before the beginning has begun in abstraction.”

Her clay paintings use a monoprint technique painting wet, colored, clay on dried, flat, stoneware clay. A hand-pulled print of the wet clay design is made using fabric as the transfer media and pressure from a roller. When the fabric is dry, it is enhanced with watermedia. Afterward sealant is applied to the fabric to secure its archival quality.

Czajkowski’s 2-D Mixed Media works on canvas are textured with the use of acrylic paint on Japanese and Thai papers, and may use gold leaf, copper leaf, fiber gels, cheesecloth, twigs, burlap and black lava. Her 3-D Mixed Media Constructions on paper may also employ the use of twigs, copper wires, glue gels, and cheesecloth in order to emulate textures found in nature.

A native Washingtonian, Geraldine began painting at an early age studying under a well-known artist in Bethesda, Maryland, and then majoring in oil painting at Ohio University. Artist’s Gallery in Chestertown, Chesapeake Gallery in Prince Frederick and Gallery 1683 in Annapolis represent her in Maryland. This award-winning artist’s work can be found in private collections across the US and abroad. She maintains a studio in Grasonville, Maryland’s Eastern Shore.