Katarzyna Spychalska, untitled, 2023

Acrylic and oil / panel, 120 x 60 cm, framed: 129 x 69 cm

About the Artist:
Katarzyna Spychalska's painting is her form of meditation. She paints fantastic creatures, unreal and unreal, which are a compilation of the human and animal worlds. This gives her paintings an unreal aesthetic and vision. Thus, she creates her personal vision of the world, woven in interesting colors. Her paintings are thus both mysterious and at the same time exert a lot of emotion in their viewers. The painter's paintings form a peculiar whole, an aesthetic independence that is so separate from the mainstream world of contemporary art.

Katarzyna Spychalska born 10.09.1973 in Zgierz. She lives and works in Aleksandrów Łódzki. Ever since she can remember, she has been surrounded by the atmosphere of art, permeated with the smell of turpentine and paints. All this was due to her grandfather, Eugeniusz Spychalski, a painter, social activist, tenor soloist and president of the "Moniuszko" choir in Aleksandrów Łódzki. As a little girl, Catherine could watch her beloved grandfather at work for hours. From an early age, the artist spent a lot of time alone, in her room, letting herself be carried away by her inexhaustible imagination. At that time she would draw, create strange installations out of spiked wire objects she found around her, dried plants, tree branches, old keys, wires, tinsel. However, after graduating from elementary school, she continued her education at the Apparel Technical School in Lodz, Poland, thanks to her parents. After graduation, she was involved in cosmetology and hairdressing. There using her artistic ideas. However, never forgetting who she really, deep inside herself, feels she is. She was constantly creating, mainly drawing with pencil, charcoal and dry pastel. The breakthrough came in 2013. When, someone suggested she take part in an open-air painting workshop. It was love, from the first painted picture. From then on, she never parted with her paints (initially acrylic). Determinedly, without any help from the artist, she began to pour her fantasies onto canvases, on which she immortalized personal emotional experiences and internal transformations that were taking place within her. Catherine already knew that painting was her main content in life, that it was a gateway for her to other realities, where she could be fully herself, showing the outside world her surreal visions sometimes dark, full of pain and loneliness, and at other times, filled with the light of never-fading hope. Meanwhile, other art lovers, began to appreciate her sincerity of artistic expression and helped her penetrate the artistic world. She took part in many group exhibitions in the country. She was invited to international plein-air exhibitions, where she won recognition and awards.