M. Sarba Fine Art
Original Oil Painting
"When I am Painting, I see the wind driving the waves, the tugboats smoke from the stacks, rust
stains streaking the side of a freighter bound for scrap.
M arek Sarba has not given in to the easy road or the passing fancy. While others paint the billowing sails and make-believe ocean of their armchair dreams, Sarba paints from the pit of his stomach. He viscerally recounts in oil on canvas the solitude and terror and overwhelming grace of the sea as he experienced it nearly two decades.
His work can be divided into two subjects, with frequent overlapping or transitional episodes within each.
Through continual experimentation, he kept his work fresh and current, and his own style emerged in his mature work of maritime subjects and portraits.
Marek Sarba portraits reveal personalities of sitters as well captures the subtlety beauty and physical characteristics.
Among his subjects have been the captain, crew and passengers of the H.M.S. Titanic, and Civil War General Horatio G. Wright. He has also painted the captain, crew and officials gathered for the launch of the Confederate submarine C.S.S. Hunley, using as his models dozens of area Civil War reenacters.
Marek individual style and content, developed along his own personal lines. By his own admission he became a champion of Romanticism and pursued the idea that the most ordinary human experiences are a legitimate subject for art.
His work has been higligted in numerous publications and his painting can be found in privated and museums fine art collections.
