Olive garden

The painting “Olive Garden” by Magdalena Nowatkowska, part of the cycle “Limits,” is a work that, in its visual simplicity, carries deeply rooted symbolic meanings. The title refers to a place with multilayered history and spiritual weight—the olive garden as a space of prayer, solitude, inner conflict, and silence. Within this context, the composition takes on an existential dimension, with its restrained means of expression becoming tools for contemplation.

The artist introduces an atmosphere of stillness, reflection, and perhaps even tension between presence and absence.

The title “Olive Garden” is no coincidence—it evokes a place of solitude and decision. It may serve as a metaphor for the moment when a person stands face to face with the inevitable—with fear, with loss, with choice. In this sense, the painting can be read as an attempt to capture a moment of inner struggle—subtle, yet irreversible.