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An important phenomenon in Stefan Gierowski's work are the works made on paper, watercolours. The painter does not treat them as sketches for oil paintings. They are separate entities in his creative explorations. Where does this 'sentiment' for water-based paints come from? From their transparency, luminosity and the possibility of achieving a finer gradation of colour tones, so essential in art founded on the action of colour. Nor can one deny them a greater spontaneity and joy of creation compared with the meticulously worked-out canvases.