The ''Paintings'' emerged right after a few of Alicja Swiatlon's works with references to reality such as the name of the city, done during her studies. The certainty of  her point of view, clearness, brightness and consistence as well as particularly mild treatment of painter's substance are present in  the final image. All the traces of the world objects have vanished.'' I am not interested in socio-pop culture theses, because these concepts can be expressed with words, you cannot speak colour...'' I found this sentence in Alicja's sketchbook. According to the above declaration she has made colour, or rather the way it exists on the surface of canvas the leitmotiv of her actions. The existence of colour is defined by the rules of contrast, attrition and mutual dissolving, the diffusion of white and an inner brightening up. The artist emphasizes this process through wide-stepped gradations of colour. Colour cannot be expressed in words indeed, but one may describe the grammar of this peculiar language though the words are hard to define. It is amazing how confidently swiatlon venture into the vast land full of traps laid by the avant-guard tradition of twentieth century art, by Kandinsky, Albers, Rothko or Gierowski. If Swatlon manages to forge her own path, even against the gravity of this individualities, it must be due to her ability to join discipline and order with an easy manner of gesture.''
Piotr Bernatowicz 2004 the curator of the Changing Guards cycle, Young Art in the Old Brewery

''Five Painters from Poznan'', Jerusalem Artist House, Israel, ISBN 83-88947-27-3, 2004

''Teza, Antyteza, Synteza'', ISBN 83-88418-61-0