Agnieszka Kutylak-Hapanowicz (born 1976), Enzo, 2021

Watercolor, paper, 21 x 15 cm, framed: 32 x 40 cm, signed p.d.: AKH

Agnieszka Kutylak-Hapanowicz
Graduated in Polish philology and editing from the Jagiellonian University, lives and works in Krakow as an editor and illustrator. Her inspiration is animate nature: insects, reptiles, but especially birds. Her work is heavily influenced by old 17th- and 18th-century engravings from natural history atlases. Most of Kutylak-Hapanovich's creatures, however, have no counterpart in the real world, existing only in imagination and dreams.
She uses watercolor, ink, acrylics, gilding, as well as paints made by her own hands from mineral and vegetable pigments. He creates on paper, on canvas and on natural surfaces such as stone and reclaimed wood.

Individual exhibitions:
2017 - "Birds' Dreams," Gliwice, Sklepik z Marzeniami gallery.
2019 - "Garden of Birds," Krakow, gallery of the Museum of the Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University
2020 - "Birds," Wysowa, Center for Cultural Product of the Low Beskid Mountains
2021 - "Portraits of Invisible Birds," Gorlice, gallery of the Karwacjan Manor House
2021 - "Songs of Life", Cracow, Palace under the Rams - New Era Art Gallery
2021 - "Birds of Paradise", Cracow, gallery of the Provincial Public Library