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Artist Statement:
I am a very independent
person, and probably my
paintings are too. Not
difficult, but every painting
is different. There is not
only one style that I like to
work in. Recently I
rediscovered the abstract
style.
I don’t paint because of the
trend, the mode, the latest
style. I paint because
something or somebody
fascinates me, or because I am
fascinated by something or
somebody.
It could be nature, a
landscape, a face, a story,
an event, details of
something, colours, a song, an
object, my feelings, my
thoughts, my dreams: -
never-ending possibilities of
improbability.
I paint figurative, often
fantastic paintings, including
portraits, still life,
collages, landscapes and
nudes. I work with oil,
watercolour and pastel. Very
sporadically I work with
acrylics. In my collages and
abstracts I use paper,
pictures, articles, flowers,
stones, poems and anything
else I can lay my hands on.
I definitely love beauty. I am
trying to express my personal
sense of beauty and being
myself in my paintings.
I believe that we are here on
this planet by accident and
not for long, actually. And
because our existence is
meaningless we shouldn’t take
ourselves so damn seriously.
If we could ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Solo exhibitions:
1995 / June Piet van
Leeuwen, private exhibition,
Holland
2003 / October Den
Haag, AWC gallery the
Netherlands
2004 / May
Exhibition Amsterdam,
(Attached to IWC the
Netherlands)
2006/ May Expo,
Amstelveen, the Netherlands
2006 Exhibition
Amsterdam (Attached to
International Woman Contact),
the Netherlands.
2006-2008 Dayan’s Art gallery
Amsterdam
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Pieter van Leeuwen, the
Netherlands
Marijke de Boer, den Haag, the
Netherlands
Michal Junosza-Cieslinski,
Poznan, Poland
Barbara Matczak, Lodz, Poland
Michal Brudnicki, Lodz, Poland
Alexandra Stebart, Lodz,
Poland
A. Krajewska, Lublin, Poland
James Hunt, Williton, England
A. Hunt, Minehaed, England
Portrait Gallery, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
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Katarzyna Turajczyk Biography:
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Committed
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
no religion |
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| Education |
Post Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
literature, philosophy, travelling, history, quantum physics, science, art history, music, jazz, opera, body boarding, walking, reading, cinema,...... |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Gothic - (1100 - 1450)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Leonardo da Vinci
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Velazquze, Infanta Margarita.
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Leonardo da Vinci, Chagall, Durer, surrealism, Gothic, nature, bodies, Callas, Classical music, jazz, my children, my thoughts, philosophy, books. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I was born with the talent to paint. I have been always interested in art, architecture, buildings, in the beauty.
When I was, just a little girl and people asked me “what do you want to be when you grow up?” I often answered a Dreamer. But I also wanted to be a Pirate or an Adventurer. At the age of 6 a 7 I had an another wish about my destination (ambition) I wished to be a genius, a painter, a drawer, an engineer, an constructor and an inventor like Leonardo da Vinci.
And so it was that I become an artist. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
From childhood on, I was busy painting and drawing. From the age of twelve, I took art classes, and trainings and I studied art in Poland and Austria. When I was 15, I sold my first abstract painting and started to study the quantum physics. When I was 17, I wrote my first poem about love and pain. The first university degree I got it was Slavic literature and linguistics. In this period, I was seriously busy with the idea of becoming a brilliant university professor. However, the political situation in Poland made it impossible for me; I became a dissident, not very important, an unimportant local dissident.
I studied art at private ateliers in Lodz in Poland and in Vienna in Austria.
I also have a university degree in Slavic languages and literature, which I obtained in Lodz and Amsterdam. I have also studied Philosophy and did Postgraduate study in management in Amsterdam.
Experiences:
My first experience as a working artist took place during a three month period in Austria, after I graduated as a Master in Philology and then left Poland. As a vagabond I moved from one to another of the beautiful villages and small towns in Austria. I painted the Pubs, Inns, Hotels, Restaurants, Villas and interesting buildings and sold the results to the owners, tourists and passers-by. I didn’t expect that I could make such a lot of money! I had enough to stay in local hotels, dining every night in pubs or restaurants, to buy new painting paraphernalia, to travel and to have fun. The summer that year was hot and sunny. The views were magnificent, and so were the food and the wines. The people were willing to pay good money for my water colours and I have to admit that my first experience of being a working artist wasn’t so bad.
I have painted my whole life but I never made a full-time occupation of being an artist. However, from 2003 I have spent most of my time painting and writing, and I regularly publish my poems (including several radio interviews and my own poetry readings). I am a member of the BBK in the Netherlands (Professional Union for Visual Artists.)
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