16 December 2025 – 23 March 2026
GVPL Central Branch
735 Broughton St, Victoria, BC
About the Work:
This selection of artwork is a visual meditation on “release” at a time when global and local challenges create bottlenecks of anxiety. How do we find a way to help ourselves and others thrive given the unrelenting reality of our world? More art in our public and personal spaces gives visual cues and clues that can help us survive the pressures of today.
In this context, my latest work is a diptych, The Face of Now 3: Get Distracted. The phrase “Get Distracted” comes from Leonardo da Vinci’s list of notes to himself in the 16th century. Centuries later, like Leonardo, we too need to “get distracted.”
My other paintings on exhibit, Promises in Action, Colour is the Keyboard, The Rear View of Diligence and Passion, and Clocking the Demise of Duty are more abstract yet intrinsically connected to this meditation through visual language suggesting pathways, direction, reason, integration and belonging.
I can be reached by email: theonlycarolyn@icloud.com
Website: www.carolynsadowska.com
About the Artist:
SADOWSKA sees painting as a space where intention and intuition flow willingly into the unknown: a space for authenticity to reign. Inner truth and a clear visual language are valued from start to finish. Although creating art is a deeply personal exploration, art can carry a great deal of emotional weight and ultimately also create a path forward for others as well as one’s self. This opportunity to share my work in exhibition is greatly appreciated as I believe art in its array of manifestations creates well-being.
Year one of my formal studies began at The Liverpool College of Art, Liverpool, England and continued, on my return to Canada, with graduation from L’École des Beaux-Arts de Québec, Quebec City. This was later followed by a B.F.A (hon.-Film) from York University, Toronto, and a B.Ed. from The Ontario Teacher Education College.
Early in my career I became a gallery artist with La Cimaise Gallery, Toronto. At this time York University added one of my paintings to their collection. Later I became a gallery artist with The Dandelion Gallery on Galiano Island BC.
However always an adventurer, during years in between galleries, I sought out a teaching post in an isolated fly-in Indigenous settlement inland from James Bay/ Hudson’s Bay. Five years later I left the north much enriched from the experience.
After a series of extraordinary life events, I performed comedy professionally for several decades. Performing and painting serendipitously do work well together.
As well having time to paint and build a garden studio, it gave me the opportunity to illustrate artifacts for expert witnesses in two precedent Indigenous cases in the BC Supreme Court.
I now paint full-time.
